On Jun 17, 2008 10:40 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > If you have a dedicated gigabit link (no congestion), InfiniBand might > work pretty well. I've used the Obsidian Longbow IB WAN extenders, and > got better performance using IB than over TCP. I believe there is also a > version that does AES encryption as well. > > Has anyone tried lustre over a 100ms latency IB wan link?
I'm not sure of the latency, but Lustre is used over a WAN at Indiana University, and they can pretty much saturate a 10GigE link with a single client... Google for "Indiana Lustre WAN" and you'll find a paper on this. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
