Brian Dobbins wrote:
I'd certainly welcome hearing more about peoples experiences with parallel file systems in general (though perhaps in a new thread?), as despite traditionally having low I/O requirements, I'm sure we'll be heading that way in the future as well.
HLRS in Stutgart (Germany), together with HWW, has a good filesystem workshop each year (for the 5 past years). I attended the last two. I think its full name is "HWW/HLRS Global Filesystem Workshop". Unfortunately, very little info on this is on the web; all presentations are distributed via password-protected ftp. I don't know the exact copyright of this stuff, though.
However, this give the opportunity customers to speak out in their presentations. Vendors do the "usual" stuff there, of course, but on a good technical level.
Anyway, for some real world experience: I remember that University of Cologne was very happy with Panassas: installed within a few hours, very good performance for them (general computing center usage, not "very large installations"), easy to expand, just works.
Joachim -- Joachim Worringen, Software Architect, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions phone ++49/(0)228/324 08 17 - http://www.dolphinics.com _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
