[StarCluster] Parallel filesystems

[Rayson Ho]

The BioTeam also published some tests comparing GlusterFS, local disk,
& NFS back in 2010:

http://bioteam.net/2010/07/playing-with-nfs-glusterfs-on-amazon-cc1-4xlarge-ec2-instance-types/

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On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Adam <adamnkraut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ron,
>
> I have a gluster plugin in our repo
>
> https://github.com/bioteam/StarClusterPlugins
>
> It just creates a distributed volume from the ephemeral disks. It doesn't do
> anything advanced but it might be enough to get you  started.
>
> -Adam
>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ron Chen <ron_chen_123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> That would be great! Can you post them somewhere online?
>>
>>  -Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Dustin Machi <dmachi at vbi.vt.edu>
>> To: Ron Chen <ron_chen_123 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: starcluster <starcluster at mit.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [StarCluster] Parallel filesystems
>>
>> I'm using glusterfs with my starcluster setup.  I have some plugins for it
>> that I can share with you if you like.  They are still works in progress,
>> but am happy to share them if they are useful.
>>
>> Dustin
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 25, 2012, at 1:25 PM, 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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