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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a customer deploy a 18 nodes cluster with a Lustre storage.
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<p class="MsoNormal">IOzone runs a good performance. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While my customer find the command “cp” is not as fast as IOzone. They want to copy<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]> a big size file, or<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>or a large number of small size files <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">within the Lustre file system. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I asked Bright for if I can install MCP for the parallel copy, understanding that MCP requires a lot software packages on BCM. I will not install MCP on my BCM software.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do you have any best practice of copy, within a Lustre FS ? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will my customer have to write a Slurm Job Script to do the parallel copying ? or do you have any best practice on copying within a Lustre FS ?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="color:#1F497D">Forrest Ling (</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:SimSun;color:#1F497D">凌巍才</span><span style="color:#1F497D">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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18600622522</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dell HPC Product Technologist Greater China</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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