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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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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