On 9/12/07, Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org> wrote: > > http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070912.2.xml > > This is great news, which means that Solaris as a storage and compute > node platform can gain acceptance in the HPC world. No doubt Sun's > experience with the TACC deployment might have urged this along. I > welcome it. > > However, I have to wonder how Lustre fits in with the existing QFS > product and, more importantly, the ongoing pNFS project. I suppose, > as far as Solaris goes, Lustre support will be complementary so > Solaris would fit in to places which already invest in Lustre... but > pNFS will be the preferred choice?
Lustre is here today, and very widely deployed. No need to wait for pNFS. (Plus someone else would have snapped them up as well). I see the biggest win for some is getting the dev team, and HPC customers. QFS is not HPC, it's more archival... (Or am I thinking SAMFS) > /dale > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > storage-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
