[Lustre-discuss] small cluster

[Paolo Supino]

Hi

  I'm new to the world of HPC and cluster :-( and I was given the task of
setting up a new (small) HPC cluster based on 36 Sun X2200 M2 systems. Each
system as 1 136GB SAS HD. I've installed CentOS 5.2 as the base OS on all
the systems and through partitinoing managed to have a unused partition size
65GB (and with 36 nodes I get +2TB of distributed storage). Tthe rest of the
HD is as follows: 4xRAM = 64GB swap and ~10GB for the OS itself. I want ot
put a Clustered FS on the unused partitions and from looking around seems
that Lustre is king of the hill ...
  The question I have is: Will I gain anything from using Lustre in such a
tight environemnt or am I going to degrade the cluster's performnce that it
simply not worth the effort?



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TIA
Paolo
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