[Beowulf] Suggestions to what DFS to use

[Christopher Samuel]

On 14/02/17 18:31, John Hanks wrote:
> 
> 1. (~500 TB) DDN SFA12K running gridscaler (GPFS) but without GPFS
> clients on nodes, this is presented to the cluster through cNFS.
[...]
> Depending on your benchmark, 1, 2 or 3 may be faster. GPFS falls over
> wheezing under load.

I suspect that's more a limitation of NFS than GPFS though in your set
up.  We've got DDN SFA10K's with GPFS all the way down and that works
really well for us (so far).

All the best,
Chris
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