Dell PowerVault MD1200 as a Network File System Backend Storage Solution
Date
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1/1/2010
While numerous parallel file systems gradually gain popularity on cluster computing platforms, network file system (NFS) is still the most popular shared file system used in high-performance clusters. For a typical high-performance computing (HPC) platform, NFS is normally built on a Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) fabric, isolated from the sensitive IPC traffic. However, as the number of clients increase, the aggregate bandwidth requirement between an NFS server and the multiple NFS clients can quickly exceed the capability of a GigE fabric. This white paper illustrates how the PowerVault™ MD1200 can be architected and tuned for performance using a 10GigE interface for HPC systems that use NFS.
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