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Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition 2.3 for Lustre sofware
Contents
Figures ...................................................................................................................... iv
Tables ....................................................................................................................... v
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1
2. The Lustre File System .............................................................................................. 1
3. Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre Description .................................................... 3
3.1 Management Server ........................................................................................... 5
3.2 Metadata Servers .............................................................................................. 5
3.3 Object Storage Servers ....................................................................................... 7
3.4 Scalability ...................................................................................................... 8
3.5 Networking ..................................................................................................... 9
3.5.1 Management Network ..................................................................................... 9
3.5.2 Data Network ............................................................................................... 9
3.6 Managing the Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre ......................................... 10
4. Performance Evaluation and Analysis .......................................................................... 11
4.1 N-to-N Sequential Reads / Writes ........................................................................ 14
4.2 Random Reads and Writes ................................................................................. 16
4.3 Metadata Testing ............................................................................................ 18
5. Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 21
Appendix A: Benchmark Command Reference ..................................................................... 23
References ................................................................................................................ 24