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Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition 2.3 for Lustre sofware
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Figure 1: Lustre based storage solution components ............................................................... 2
Figure 2: Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre Components Overview ................................ 4
Figure 3: Lustre DNE option ............................................................................................. 4
Figure 4: Dell PowerEdge R630 ......................................................................................... 5
Figure 5: Metadata Server Pair .......................................................................................... 6
Figure 6: Metadata Server Pair with Lustre DNE option ............................................................ 6
Figure 7: Object Storage Server Pair ................................................................................ 7
Figure 8: RAID6 Layout on MD3460 or MD3060e arrays ............................................................. 8
Figure 9: OSS Scalability ................................................................................................. 9
Figure 10: Intel Manager for Lustre (IML) interface ............................................................... 10
Figure 11: Sequential Reads / Writes Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre Solution ............. 14
Figure 12: SAS drivers................................................................................................... 15
Figure 13: Storage Write Caching..................................................................................... 16
Figure 14: Write cache effect Random Write ...................................................................... 17
Figure 15: File Metadata Operations ................................................................................. 19
Figure 16: Directory Metadata Operations .......................................................................... 20
Figure 17: MDtest File Create Operations Lustre DNE ............................................................ 21