Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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Tables
Table 1.
NFS server and storage hardware configuration
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Table 2.
NFS server software and firmware configuration
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Table 3.
Hardware configuration for DFC
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Table 4.
Software and firmware configuration for DFC
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Table 5.
I/O cluster details
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Figures
Figure 1.
NFS storage solution
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Figure 2.
NFS server
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Figure 3.
Test bed
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Figure 4.
PCIe SSD health
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Figure 5.
Large sequential write performance
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Figure 6.
Large sequential read performance
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Figure 7.
Random write performance
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Figure 8.
Random read performance
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Figure 9.
Metadata file create performance
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Figure 10.
Metadata file stat performance
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Figure 11.
Metadata file remove performance
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Figure 12.
Cold-cache sequential reads
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Figure 13.
Cold-cache random reads
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Figure 14.
CacheIO-DiskIO on cold-cache reads
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Figure 15.
Solution cabling
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