Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AMD Rome support?

2019-10-22 Thread Peinkofer, Stephan
Dear Jon, we run a bunch of AMD EPYC Naples Dual Socket servers with GPFS in our TSM Server Cluster. From what I can say it runs stable, but IO performance in general and GPFS performance in particular - even compared to an Xeon E5 v3 system - is rather poor. So to put that into perspective

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AMD Rome support?

2019-10-22 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 22/10/2019 17:30, Felipe Knop wrote: > Jon, > > AMD processors which are completely compatible with Opteron should also > work. > > Please also refer to Q5.3 on the SMP scaling limit: 64 cores: > > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html >

[gpfsug-discuss] AMD Rome support?

2019-10-22 Thread Jon Diprose
Dear GPFSUG, I see the faq says Spectrum Scale is supported on "AMD Opteron based servers". Does anyone know if/when support will be officially extended to cover AMD Epyc, especially the new 7002 (Rome) series? Does anyone have any experience of running Spectrum Scale on Rome they could