Re: [Beowulf] SSD caching for parallel filesystems

2013-02-07 Thread Joe Landman
On 02/07/2013 01:20 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > I'm looking for something that can cache a parallel filesystem from > the client side. From what I've read of CacheCade, it only works with > local disks directly attached to the PERC controller. -- Prentice >

Re: [Beowulf] SSD caching for parallel filesystems

2013-02-07 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 02/06/2013 06:24 PM, Brendan Moloney wrote: > You could use something like CacheFS for client side caching, but this > will always be a read only cache. That might not be a problem. Fusion-io's directCache is a write-though cache, so all writes are to disk, anyway. I think several other pro

Re: [Beowulf] SSD caching for parallel filesystems

2013-02-07 Thread Kilian Cavalotti
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Brendan Moloney wrote: > The newer versions of CacheCade can do write caching which could be pretty > useful for speeding up RAID6 on the servers. Pretty sure there are other > options to do write caching on the server (like Bcache). Or BTIER, which looks like a r

Re: [Beowulf] I am trying to build a Beowulf cluster for media purposes.

2013-02-07 Thread Hearns, John
Hello, I hope my email finds the right people who can help me with my question. I will go straight to the point, I am trying to build a Linux-based Beowulf cluster which can encode music for me. Yazeed, that sounds an interesting project. All you need to do is choose a Linux OS - I use SuSE Linu