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Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition 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 ................................ 3
Figure 3: Dell PowerEdge R630 ......................................................................................... 4
Figure 4: Metadata Server Pair .......................................................................................... 5
Figure 5: Object Storage Server Pair................................................................................... 6
Figure 6: RAID6 Layout on MD3460 or MD3060e arrays ............................................................. 7
Figure 7: OSS Scalability ................................................................................................. 8
Figure 8: Intel Manager for Lustre (IML) interface ................................................................ 10
Figure 9: Sequential Reads / Writes Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre ......................... 13
Figure 10: N-to-N Random reads and writes ........................................................................ 14
Figure 11: N-to-1 IOR Read / Write .................................................................................. 16
Figure 12: File Metadata Operations ................................................................................. 18
Figure 13: Directory Metadata Operations .......................................................................... 19