Re: [Beowulf] Network Filesystems performance

2007-11-11 Thread Buccaneer for Hire.
I can assure you that here in the US I have made then VERY aware of that fact. Since we have such a large cluster they really want to move us into RHEL in the worse way. We use XFS under Fedora and contrained to using RHEL, EXT3. When the client complains about performance, I just tell them to

Re: [Beowulf] Re: The Walmart Compute Node?

2007-11-11 Thread Tim Cutts
On 10 Nov 2007, at 4:23 am, Mark Hahn wrote: we live in different worlds. we support spikes in demand by interleaving them in a large enough pool of resources. sure, there's no guarantee that spikes won't conflict. do you really have users who are willing to pay for a whole cluster an