[Bioclusters] Ethernet Performance

[Tim Cutts]

On 13 Jul 2004, at 8:51 am, Rene Storm wrote:

>
> Is there someone brave out there with pvfs2 performance results?
>

No, but Guy's talk from Bioclusters will tell you our experiences with  
IBM's GPFS.  Each chassis of 14 blades has its blastable data on a 600  
GB GPFS filesystem shared across all the machines.  Performance often  
actually exceeds that of the local disks that contribute to the  
filesystem (gigabit ethernet has better bandwidth than a local 2.5" IDE  
disk, after all)  Here's his talk:

http://labs.bioinformatics.org/bioclusters/2004/coates-bioclusters- 
talk.pdf

Tim

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