Re: is hammer for us

2009-08-12 Thread Mag Gam
I was under the impression HAMMER was a parallel filesystem. sorry On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthew Dillondil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: : :The I/O bottleneck is coming from the disk subsystem and network. I :was wondering if HAMMER can do parallel filesystem implementation

is hammer for us

2009-08-11 Thread Mag Gam
I am a student doing fluid dynamics research. We generate a lot of data (close to 2TB a day). We are having scalability problems with NFS. We have 2 Linux servers with 64GB of RAM, and they are serving the files. We are constantly running into I/O bottle neck problems. Would hammer fix the

Re: is hammer for us

2009-08-11 Thread Mag Gam
The I/O bottleneck is coming from the disk subsystem and network. I was wondering if HAMMER can do parallel filesystem implementation similar to GPFS or Lustre. Also, the reads/writes are random access there is very little sequential streaming, but the files are large.Each file is around 30GB