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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We have an in house 27 node cluster. With no shared storage
capability.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have just order 2 storage nodes with extra drives in them
and was hoping I could use this with Lustre and provide a good shared storage
setup.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>How would you suggest configuring this setup ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Each node comes with dual network adapters so I was thinking
about bonding them together to provide more bandwidth ( our switch should allow
us to do this.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Iain<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Iain Grant</span></font></b></strong> <br>
<b><i><font size=2 color=green><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:green;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Linux Administrator</span></font></i></b> <br>
<font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>Scottish Crop Research Institute <br>
<st1:place w:st="on">Dundee</st1:place> DD2 5DA <br>
Tel: +44 (0)1382 562731 <br>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.scri.ac.uk/"><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>www.scri.ac.uk</span></font></a></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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