[StarCluster] Parallel filesystems

Ron Chen ron_chen_123 at yahoo.com
Fri May 25 13:25:33 EDT 2012


Anyone using Lustre, PVFS or GlusterFS on EC2? I'm reading the 'Data Sharing Options for Scientific Workflows on Amazon EC2' paper:

http://www.isi.edu/~gideon/publications/JuveG-DataSharing.pdf

Looks like parallel FS like glusterFS can improve cluster performance in many cases, especially when there are more than 8 nodes.

 -Ron



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