As long as you are not doing heavy application communication for your jobs as well as being an IO node over the same gigE link on each server I dont forsee a significant problem.
Probably best to wait to see what others have to say. I use a similar setup, I think.. I might be confused by the description. ~Kyle On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, sonatabar bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello PVFS2: > > Compute Cluster Architecture: > > Top most Layer: Frontend+Compute Nodes AS PVFS2_Client > > Next Layer: GigE/Infiniband Interconnect > > Next Layer: A Metadata Server & Bunch of PVFS I/O > Nodes > > Bottom Layer: A Separate Storage array for each I/O > nodes. > > With the above architecture in mind, I plan to create > a huge pvfs2-storage pool from all of the storage > mounted on the I/O nodes. This large pvfs2-storage > pool will be mounted on all of the compute nodes and > the front end of the clusters from the PVFS2 I/O > nodes. > > I just wanted to get a heads up on this architecture > if any. > > I have read FAQ's and more, look forward for any > caveats anyone can think of. > > Thank you - í > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > -- Kyle Schochenmaier _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
