<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Brett,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for this. This all seems reasonable and understandable. Thanks for your help</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Ben<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 13, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Brett Lee <<a href="mailto:brettlee.lustre@gmail.com" class="">brettlee.lustre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi Markham,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe think of Lustre as a bunch of different components... While you can combine the components (server services and client services) on one node, you can also put each service on a different node, and connect them via a network.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To begin, I suggest using just one node. Start all the server services, and then start the client service. Then start and stop it all a few times. Once you get the hang of it, then split the server services to different nodes, and put the client on it's own node also.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seem reasonable?</div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Secure your confidential information with PDS2<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">PDS Software Solutions LLC</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.trustpds.com/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.TrustPDS.com</a></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Markham Benjamin <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ben.markham@xiilab.com" target="_blank" class="">ben.markham@xiilab.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Ah sorry. What I mean is something I could experiment on without any hardware limitations. I hope that makes sense. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But it seems I could just run Lustre on one node.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Ben<div class=""><div class="gmail-h5"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 13, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Brett Lee <<a href="mailto:brettlee.lustre@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">brettlee.lustre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-5922925186220077936Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p class="">Proper? Please expand on that. :)</p><p class="">To get started, you could run Lustre on just one node.</p><p class="">Brett<br class="">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2016 7:08 PM, "Markham Benjamin" <<a href="mailto:ben.markham@xiilab.com" target="_blank" class="">ben.markham@xiilab.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br class="">
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I just have been reading about Lustre and getting into it. I just have a simple question: about how many computer would I need in order to set up a proper simple LustreFS?<br class="">
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Ben.<br class="">
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