[Beowulf] Suggestions to what DFS to use

[Justin Y. Shi]

Maybe you would consider Scality (http://www.scality.com/) for your growth
concerns. If you need speed, DDN is faster in rapid data ingestion and for
extreme HPC data needs.

Justin

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk> wrote:

> On 2017-02-13 09:36, Benson Muite wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you have any performance requirements?
> >
> > Benson
> >
> > On 02/13/2017 09:55 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> So, we're running a small(as in a small number of nodes(10), not
> >> storage(170TB)) hadoop cluster here. Right now we're on IBM Spectrum
> >> Scale(GPFS) which works fine and has POSIX support. On top of GPFS we
> >> have a GPFS transparency connector so that HDFS uses GPFS.
> >>
> >> Now, if I'd like to replace GPFS with something else, what should I use?
> >> It needs to be a fault-tolerant DFS, with POSIX support(so that users
> >> can move data to and from it with standard tools).
> >>
> >> I've looked at MooseFS which seems to be able to do the trick, but are
> >> there any others that might do?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >
>
> Well, we're not going to be doing a huge amount of I/O. So performance
> requirements are not high. But ingest needs to be really fast, we're
> talking tens of terabytes here.
>
> /tony
>
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>
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