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Storage Performance: Block vs. File System

By Torben Kling Petersen | November 11, 2011 at 7:43 pm | No comments

File system performance is often a major component of overall HPC system performance, and is heavily dependent on the nature of the application(s) generating the load. To achieve optimal performance, the underlying file system configuration must be balanced to match the...

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Why Lustre?

By Torben Kling Petersen | October 25, 2011 at 5:29 pm | No comments

Lustre is not the only scalable parallel file system in the HPC world but, during it’s 10 year lifespan, it still dominates in eight out of the top ten HPC systems in the world and is in more than 70% of the Top500.  Lustre is open source so it is not tied to a single vendor...

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