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Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition 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 ........................................................................................... 4
3.2 Metadata Servers .............................................................................................. 4
3.3 Object Storage Servers ....................................................................................... 5
3.4 Scalability ...................................................................................................... 7
3.5 Networking ..................................................................................................... 8
3.5.1 Management Network ..................................................................................... 8
3.5.2 Data Network ............................................................................................... 8
3.6 Managing the Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre ........................................... 9
4. Performance Evaluation and Analysis .......................................................................... 10
4.1 N-to-N Sequential Reads / Writes ........................................................................ 13
4.2 Random Reads and Writes ................................................................................. 13
4.3 IOR N-to-1 Reads and Writes .............................................................................. 14
4.4 Metadata Testing ............................................................................................ 16
5. Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 19
Appendix A: Benchmark Command Reference ..................................................................... 20
References ................................................................................................................ 21