On Thursday, 26 November 2020 3:14:05 AM PST Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> Now, traditionally I would say that we are going for InfiniBand. However,
> for reasons I don't want to go into right now, our existing file storage
> (Lustre) will be in a different location. Thus, we decided to go for RoCE
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, 09:28 Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf, <
beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote:
> What I have is 3 rPi computers, A,B, and C, and what I’d like to do is
> keep the desktop and some data directories on all of them synchronized. So
> if on node A, I add something to A:~/Desktop, it (in sho
We are a ROCE shop with HPC on private cloud and have had a mostly good
experience. We have had quite a number of issues over time that were bugs
and needed vendor support to resolve. Some of which have taken a long time.
So from a maturity perspective IB is definitely much better. As a matter of
p
Let me try to help:
- OpenStack is supported natively on InfiniBand already, therefore
there is no need to go to Ethernet for that
- File system wise, you can have IB file system, and connect directly
to IB system.
- Depends on the distance, you can run 2Km IB betwee
Jorg, I think I might know where the Lustre storage is !
It is possible to install storage routers, so you could route between
ethernet and infiniband.
It is also worth saying that Mellanox have Metro Infiniband switches -
though I do not think they go as far as the west of London!
Seriously thoug
Dear all,
as the DNS problems have been solve (many thanks for doing this!), I was
wondering if people on the list have some experiences with this question:
We are currently in the process to purchase a new cluster and we want to use
OpenStack for the whole management of the cluster. Part of t
