By John Fragalla | November 7, 2011 at 6:20 pm | No comments
Applications will dictate the throughput and capacity of a HPC storage solution using Lustre. Lustre is a flexible file system that allows for scaling capacity horizontally or vertically to meet the application I/O requirements. Scaling capacity horizontally, or scaling-out,...
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By John Fragalla | October 14, 2011 at 1:53 pm | No comments
When architecting HPC storage solutions, there are really two options to look at: a network file system (NFS) solution or a parallel file system.
For years NFS was the dominant protocol for sharing data between compute nodes because it was free and relatively...
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By John Fragalla | October 6, 2011 at 4:18 pm | No comments
A High Performance Compute (HPC) system is comprised of tightly coupled compute nodes interconnected with a high speed, low latency network, accessing data from a storage subsystem. HPC enables applications to run on discrete compute nodes acting as a single system using a...
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