Need comments about cluster file systems

[Rob Ross]

That sort of depends on what you think of as "good" throughput, what
application you are using, and what those 16 I/O nodes look like
hardware-wise.

It's certainly possible for 16 reasonable I/O servers to serve 100+
compute nodes without falling over.

Rob

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Philippe Blaise - GRENOBLE wrote:

> 24 compute nodes is a desk cluster :-) ; but the ratio 1.5 compute /
> IO nodes is quite high. What about 100 compute nodes : do you really
> need 60 I/O nodes to achieve a good throughput - or 16 I/O nodeswill
> be still ok ?
> 
>   Philippe
> 
> Kumaran Rajaram wrote:
> 
> >   More information regarding the PVFS performance can be obtained from the
> > site below:
> >
> > http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/power_ps4q02-kashyap.htm
> >
> >    It is interesting to note the read/write performance to scale well for
> > 16 I/O nodes.
> >
> > -Kums
> >
> > -- Kumaran Rajaram, Mississippi State University --
> > kums at cs.msstate.edu  <http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~kums>
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jeff Layton wrote:
> >
> > > Philippe Blaise - GRENOBLE wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Are there some figures about PVFS perfs over SCI and/or Myrinet ?
> > >
> > > Sure (Myrinet):
> > >
> > > http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/miami2000/miami2000_01.html
> > > http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/el2000/extreme2000.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
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