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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
This Dell EMC technical white paper describes sequential and random I/O performance results for Dell EMC Isilon F800 and H600
node types and compares them to other storage offerings, like the Dell HPC Lustre Storage Solution and the Dell NFS Storage Solution
(NSS), where possible. The data is intended to inform administrators on the suitability of Isilon storage clusters for various HPC
workloads. The same test methodologies and the same test hardware were used where possible to generate the results.
Storage configurations
Table 1 lists the configuration details of the three storage systems benchmarked. Details on the Dell NFS Storage Solution-High
Availability (NSS-7.0-HA) can be found here.
Table 1. Storage configurations. NFSv3 was used in all tests.
Compute nodes
64 nodes of the Zenith compute cluster
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were used during the tests. Table 2 lists Zenith compute node configuration details.