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Sequential writes, Large sequential write performance,

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Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS Throughput in MiB/s Figure 5. Large sequential write performance Sequential writes 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 1 2 4 8 16 32 48 64 Number of concurrent clients baseline DFC-WB DFC-WT Throughput in MiB/s Figure 6. Large sequential read performance 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 1 Sequential reads 2 4 8 16 32 48 64 Number of concurrent clients baseline DFC-WB DFC-WT Figure 6 shows the results of the sequential read tests. The aggregate throughput achieved when a number of clients are simultaneously reading files is plotted on the graph. The figures show the peak read throughput for the baseline is ~2,500 MiB/s. With the DFC configuration, reads are 13% to 60% 18

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Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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Large sequential write performance
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Large sequential read performance
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Figure 6 shows the results of the sequential read tests. The aggregate throughput achieved when a
number of clients are simultaneously reading files is plotted on the graph. The figures show the peak
read throughput for the baseline is ~2,500 MiB/s. With the DFC configuration, reads are 13% to 60%
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