[lustre-discuss] Running IBM Power boxes as OSSs?

[Jones, Peter A]

Daniel

We only routinely build/test with power clients but that’s because of prioritizing limited testing resources towards what our customers were using rather than avoiding known pitfalls. I do think that there are sites which also have power servers but I’ll let them speak up themselves rather than give you misinformation.

As for the hurdles of working on non-x86, there have been people in the Lustre community working on SPARC and ARM in recent times so they might be able to comment and I see that there is due to be a talk on Lustre on ARM servers at the upcoming LAD conference - https://www.eofs.eu/events/lad17 - which could provide some insights when it has been published

If you do decide to investigate further then please do report back to the list about how you fare

Peter

On 9/1/17, 3:24 AM, "lustre-discuss on behalf of Daniel Kidger" <lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org> on behalf of daniel.kidger at uk.ibm.com<mailto:daniel.kidger at uk.ibm.com>> wrote:

Hi.

This is my first posting to the list.
I have worked off an on with Lustre since a helping set up a demo at SC02 in Baltimore.
A long time has passed and I now find myself at IBM.
The question I have today is:

Are any sites running with IBM POWER hardware for their Lustre servers i.e. MDS and OSSs?
The only references I find are very old, certainly long before the availability of little-endian RedHat.

And if not, what are likely to be the pain points and hurdles in building and running Lustre on non-x86 platforms like POWER?

Daniel

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