Does anyone have any experience with how BeeGFS compares to Lustre? We're looking at both of those for our next generation HPC storage system.
Is CephFS a valid option for HPC now? Last time I played with CephFS it wasn't ready for prime time, but that was a few years ago. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Joe Landman <joe.land...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 07/24/2018 10:31 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: > >> Forgive me for saying this, but the philosophy for software defined >> storage such as CEPH and Gluster is that forklift style upgrades should not >> be necessary. >> When a storage server is to be retired the data is copied onto the new >> server then the old one taken out of service. Well, copied is not the >> correct word, as there are erasure-coded copies of the data. Rebalanced is >> probaby a better word. >> > > This ^^ > > I'd seen/helped build/benchmarked some very nice/fast CephFS based storage > systems in $dayjob-1. While it is a neat system, if you are focused on > availability, scalability, and performance, its pretty hard to beat > BeeGFS. We'd ($dayjob-1) deployed several very large/fast file systems > with it on our spinning rust, SSD, and NVMe units. > > > -- > Joe Landman > e: joe.land...@gmail.com > t: @hpcjoe > w: https://scalability.org > g: https://github.com/joelandman > l: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelandman > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- James Burton OS and Storage Architect Advanced Computing Infrastructure Clemson University Computing and Information Technology 340 Computer Court Anderson, SC 29625 (864) 656-9047
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