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<DIV>Hi There,</DIV>
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<DIV>I am new to Lustre and my institute wants me to setup Lustre for ROCKS HPC
(already working) in our R&D lab.</DIV>
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<DIV>The server details are as follows:</DIV>
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configured as Active – Active OSS Cluster with 100TB
DAS.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Active MDS Cluster with 3TB DAS.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face="Trebuchet MS">3. All the above four servers are having RHEL 7 to be
connected to our ROCKS HPC Cluster with RHEL 6.6</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face="Trebuchet MS">4. We will be using Infiniband connectivity for LNET
and ROCKS internal network.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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configuration or any help in this regard will be appreciated.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana><STRONG>Ravi Konila</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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