[Lustre-discuss] small cluster

[Kevin Van Maren]

Paolo,

The biggest problem with using Lustre in this environment is that the 
Lustre _servers_ (those providing the disk space) cannot _use_ the 
filesystem (cannot have a client and a server on same machine).

Kevin


Paolo Supino wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
> --
> TIA
> Paolo
>   
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