Lustre currently supports lots of different hardware+software stacks including commodity and propriatory hardware. To see kind of throughput Lustre achieves have a look at http://www.clusterfs.com/faq-io.html
Cheers, -Atul On 7/23/07, Sanjeev Bagewadi <Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com> wrote: > Pramod, > > You are right. > > Now, the next question would be to see if the incoming rate can be > sustained. > Because, 1GB/s is quite a bit for the n/w stack to handle. We would > enough of CPU power > to handle that rate of n/w interrupts and process the data. > > So, probably it would make sense to have multiple edge machines with > thumpers in the backend and data > being striped across these multiple boxes. > > Infact I was wondering if the LustreFS over ZFS (ref. to recent > Constellation announcement) makes > more sense.... but, I have not explored what kind of h/w they would support. > > All-in-all a good challenge to handle :-)) > > Cheers, > Sanjeev. > > Pramod Batni wrote: > > >Not sure if 'thumper' [the hardware storage from Sun] is the right choice > >here. > >Storage capacity of a thumper is 24TB. [Think of Thumper as a Computer > >with 24 TB storage which can be *easily administered* using ZFS.] > > > >Around 100 [or thereabouts] thumpers can provide the stoarage to hold the > >data > >[1GB/s for 30 days] > > > >Pramod > > > >On 7/21/07, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>There's this Slashdot story talking about CERN's storage needs in 2008 > >>- about a GB per second for a month. > >> > >>http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/21/0235222.shtml > >> > >>What kind of hardware would Sun have that'd support such storage ? > >> > >>-- Sriram > >>_______________________________________________ > >>ug-bosug mailing list > >>List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > >>List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > >>List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > >> > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >ug-bosug mailing list > >List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > >List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > >List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > > > > > -- > Solaris Revenue Products Engineering, > India Engineering Center, > Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. > Tel: x27521 +91 80 669 27521 > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- Atul Vidwansa Cluster File Systems Inc. http://www.clusterfs.com
