[Beowulf] What kind of I/O benchmark ?

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

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I am currently engaged in a "bake-off" of sorts between two different
vendors. We used IOzone as an initial test, but picked three of our most
representative codes to do the remainder of the tests. With these codes we
scaled up the number of concurrent processors, the number of files, and the
file size, including parallel and single node writes and reads.

As always, the best test is your own code.

Velu Erwan said the following on 2005.03.23 06:16:
> Hi folks,
> I'm searching the best way to stress a storage system but using some
> real applications. I mean, using some bonnie++, Iozone, b_eff_io
> benchmarks could give some raw performances about what your storage
> infrastructure is able to provide.
> 
> Some benchmarks like mpi-tile-io seems starting another way by trying to
> match what could be the "real" performance of your storage regarding a
> kind of application (visualization for mpi-tile-io).
> 
> Does other people are working on such kind of application oriented
> benchmark ?
> 
> I was heard that some BLAST code could be used for such use, does some
> of you follow this way of validating/benchmarking clusters ?

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