I had the recent opportunity on January 25, 2012 to participate with our valuable partner Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. in a joint educational webinar. Mellanox is a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems...
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...
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...
This Thursday, I’ll be speaking at South America’s largest HPC conference about breaking the I/O bottleneck in HPC storage so please join us if you’re planning on to be at the conference. I feel that as an industry, we face many architectural challenges around creating a...
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...
Hello from San Diego! This week looks to be a busy one for the HPC community. With so much happening in this industry, it’s hard to stay up to date with all of the recent installations, new technologies and industry initiatives. That’s why I like participating in events like...
Why does storage for HPC have to be so hard? Building HPC data storage using traditional servers, storage systems and network fabrics (SAN) gets in the way of simplicity, performance and resiliency for those that just care about getting to their research results. For me,...
