Hello Ales, Thank you for the additional suggestions. It will be interesting to see the similarities and differences between hardware configs that work best for Lustre, and those that end up working best for Ceph.
Craig Dunwoody GraphStream Incorporated ales writes: >Sure raw numbers for a hardware are often very impressive, but >it is up to the software to squeeze the performance out of it. >Experimenting is always the best way to find out, but you can search >the web to get the picture. I suggest taking a look at Lustre >setups - the architecture is very similar, they also use mostly >of-the-shelf componenst. Apparently the common Lustre OSD is rather fat >- plenty of disks divided into several RAID groups, very much like the >X4500. Then againg, HPC people are mostly focused on >streaming writes, so if your application differs then your point of >diminishing returns might be elsewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
