On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Greg Kurtzer<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the comments Greg! > If you were using Perceus..... No. I've never used Perceus before and although it sounds interesting this seems like a bad time to try something new! > > The file system needs to be built to handle the load of the apps. 300 > nodes means you can go from the low end (Linux RAID and NFS) to a > higher end NFS solution, or upper end of a parallel file system or > maybe even one of each (NFS and parallel) as they solve some different > requirements. What exactly do you mean by a "parallel" file system? Something like GPFS? That's IBM proprietory though isn't it? On the other hand NFS seems pretty archaic. I've seen quite a few installations use Lustre. I am planning to play with that. Something in the OpenSource world to keep costs down. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
