[Beowulf] What kind of I/O benchmark ?

[Guy Coates]

>
> I was heard that some BLAST code could be used for such use, does some
> of you follow this way of validating/benchmarking clusters ?
>

Yes; blast makes a good addition to the benchmarks you already mentioned.
The IO pattern is memory-mapped streaming reads, typically of "large"
(>2GB) files.  Blast won't tell you much about your write performance
though.

Guy

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