[Beowulf] Putting /home on Lusture of GPFS

[Chris Samuel]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 08:02:31 AM Skylar Thompson wrote:

> so if you have lots of files you'll want to consider placing your metadata
> on fast storage

This is what we do, we use SSDs on IBM v7000's for that.  Works very well.

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