[StarCluster] Parallel filesystems

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Fri May 25 13:31:58 EDT 2012


Thanks for the link, Ron! If I can add to the mix of the question, any
one have feedback/experience with Disco (http://discoproject.org)
specifically on the distributed filesystem part?

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Ron Chen <ron_chen_123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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