[Beowulf] SSD caching for parallel filesystems

[Brendan Moloney]

You could use something like CacheFS for client side caching, but this will
always be a read only cache.

The newer versions of CacheCade can do write caching which could be pretty
useful for speeding up RAID6 on the servers. Pretty sure there are other
options to do write caching on the server (like Bcache).




On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Prentice Bisbal <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu
> wrote:

>
> On 02/06/2013 05:07 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Brock Palen<brockp at umich.edu>  wrote:
> >> I have been thinking about this.  DDN's SFX looks like it might be able
> to do this at the block level.  I am trying to get them to think that they
> should do this.
> > Yes, supposedly it'll just be a firmware upgrade and addition of SSD's
> > into their storage units. Then Gridscalar (gpfs) or exascalar (lustre)
> > will be able to take advantage of it without knowing anything about
> > it.
>
> So then these SSDs would reside on the DDN appliance? I was thinking of
> client-side caching.
>
> --
> Prentice
>
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