[Lustre-discuss] lustre praise

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 05, 2008  09:42 -0500, Aaron Knister wrote:
> We have a relatively small lustre setup (50TB) with infiniband as the  
> interconnect. Well this morning we saw 1.2Gigabytes per second reads  
> and 500MB/s writes from one client. I literally had to stand up and  
> leave the room. I was absolutely floored. I wanted to thank the lustre  
> developers for their outstanding work and continued dedication to  
> supporting those (like myself) who can't afford a support contract.  

Aaron,
thanks for the positive feedback.  People always have time to complain,
but far fewer take the time to report when things are going well, or
better than expected.

Can you please elaborate a bit on your system configuration (HCA, SDR/DDR,
switch, CPUs, RAM, #OSS, #OSTs, etc) for reference.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.