[lustre-discuss] OSS on compute node

[Feng Zhang]

Yes. I do not have a chance to use BeeGFS, while I know some
institutes use it.https://io500.org/

Best,

Feng

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 3:49 PM Fedele Stabile
<fedele.stabile at fis.unical.it> wrote:
>
> I have to study in detail beegfs,
>  Is it usable on a little HPC Cluster?
>
> ________________________________
> From: Feng Zhang <prod.feng at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 9:07:48 PM
> To: Fedele Stabile <fedele.stabile at fis.unical.it>
> Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org <lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>
> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] OSS on compute node
>
> In theory it should work, but may have some performance issues though.
>
> This idea is also similar to BeeGFS BeeOND (BeeGFS on-demand).
>
> Should run computer(client) nodes in VM, or container, to avoid any
> users' app to crash the whole node intentionally or not.
>
> Best,
>
> Feng
>
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 7:00 AM Fedele Stabile
> <fedele.stabile at fis.unical.it> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > We are in progress to integrate Lustre on our little HPC Cluster and we would like to know if it is possible to use the same node in a cluster to act as an OSS with disks and to also use it as a Compute Node and then install a Lustre Client.
> > I know that the OSS server require a modified kernel so I suppose it can be installed in a virtual machine using kvm on a compute node.
> >
> > Greetings from UniCal Cosenza-Calabria Italy,
> > Fedele
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