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Sizing Lustre For Throughput and/or Capacity

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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Benefits of Parallel File Systems for HPC Performance

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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The Importance of Storage in HPC

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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