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<p>Will, <br>
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<p>Several years ago,when I was at Rutgers, Joe Landman's company,
Scalable Informatics (RIP), was trying to sell be on BeeGFS over
Lustre and GPFS. At the time, I was not interested. Why not?
BeeGFS was still relatively new, and Lustre and GPFS had larger
install bases, and therefore bigger track records. I was the only
System admin in a group with aspirations to be the one-stop shop
for a very large research institution, and to become a
national-level HPC center. As a result, I was more risk-adverse
than I normally would be. I didn't want to take a risk with a
relatively unproven system, no matter how good it's performance
was. I also wanted to use a system where there was an abundance of
other sys admins with expertise I could lean on if I needed to. <br>
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<p>Fast forward 4-5 years, and the situation has completely changed.
At SC18, it seemed every booth was using or promoting BeeGFS, and
everyone was saying good things about it. If were in the same
situation today, I wouldn't hesitate to consider BeeGFS. <br>
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<p>In fact, I feel bad for not giving it a closer look at the time,
because it's clear Joe and his team at his late company were on to
something and were clearly ahead of their time with promoting
BeeGFS. <br>
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<p>--<br>
Prentice<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/18/19 11:50 AM, Will Dennis wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am considering using BeeGFS for a
parallel file system for one (and if successful, more) of our
clusters here. Just wanted to get folks’ opinions on that, and
if there is any “gotchas” or better-fit solutions out there...
The first cluster I am considering it for has ~50TB storage
off a single ZFS server serving the data over NFS currently;
looking to increase not only storage capacity, but also I/O
speed. The cluster nodes that are consuming the storage have
10GbaseT interconnects, as does the ZFS server. As we are a
smaller shop, want to keep the solution simple. BeeGFS was
recommended to me as a good solution off another list, and
wanted to get people’s opinions off this list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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