On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:12:11PM +1100, Carl Thomas wrote: > > HI all, > We are currently in the midst of planning a major refresh of our existing > HPC cluster. > It is expected that our storage will consist of a combination of fast > fibre channel and SATA based disk and we would like to implement a system > whereby user files are automatically migrated to and from slow storage > depending on frequency of usage. Initial investigations seem to indicate > that larger commercial�hierarchical storage management systems vastly > exceed our budget. > > Is there any mature open source alternatives out there? How are other > organisations dealing with transparently presenting different tiers of > storage to non technical scientists? >
Just curious -- how large and how big are the deltas in the hierarchy? I ask because the new generation of 2TB SATA disks appear to be establishing the groundwork for a list of new storage options including cluster file systems that run circles around NFS and large storage RAIDS. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
