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Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition 2.3 for Lustre sofware
Figure 17: MDtest File Create Operations Lustre DNE
5. Conclusions
There is a well-known requirement for scalable, high-performance clustered file system solutions. The
Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre Solution addresses this need with a well-designed solution
that is easy to manage and fully supported. The solution includes the added benefit of the Dell
PowerEdge™ 13
th
generation server platform, PowerVault™ storage products and Lustre
®
technology,
the leading open source solution for a parallel file system. The Intel Manager for Lustre (IML) unifies
the management of the Lustre File System and solution components into a single control and
monitoring panel for ease of use.
The scale of the raw storage, 960TB per Object Storage Server Pair and up to 11GB/s of read and 7GB/s
of write throughput in a packaged component, is consistent with the needs of the high performance
computing environments. The Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre Solution is also capable of
scaling in throughput as easily as it scales in capacity.
The performance studies demonstrate a high throughput for both reads and writes for N-to-N as well as
N-to-1 file type access. Results from MDtest show an elevated capacity for the metadata file
operations. With the PCI-e 3.0 interface, IB FDR HCAs contribute excellent throughput for high
bandwidth applications.
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