[Beowulf] how fast can NFS run?

Bruce Allen ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu
Wed Feb 1 13:39:04 PST 2006


> I have seen 200MB/s over infiniband. Needless to say I was not overly 
> impressed, expecting more something in the 800-900MB/s
> range. (pci-x bottlenecked infiniband)

PCI-X should be 133 MHz x 8 bytes = 1034 MB/s.  Any idea why it 
bottlenecked at 200?

Cheers,
 	Bruce



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