[Beowulf] What kind of I/O benchmark ?
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Guy Coates gmpc at sanger.ac.ukWed Mar 23 08:25:08 PST 2005
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> > I was heard that some BLAST code could be used for such use, does some > of you follow this way of validating/benchmarking clusters ? > Yes; blast makes a good addition to the benchmarks you already mentioned. The IO pattern is memory-mapped streaming reads, typically of "large" (>2GB) files. Blast won't tell you much about your write performance though. Guy -- Dr. Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 ex 7199
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