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Chris,<br><br>
Just a tip on the Lustre help scenario. Don't wait till the last minute
to get the Lustre guy<br>
involved. If they can't just drop in one of the pre-built kernels (like
Redhat ur Suse) it's going<br>
to take some work. They will need to know if there is any wiggle room on
which OS and/or kernel<br>
revision is used. Some customers/demos have very specific requirements on
this, some are more<br>
relaxed, as in anything that's come out in the last year. So, they are
going to need hardware details <br>
like the exact OS requirements & kernel revision requirements,<br>
type of disk storage (DDN, Engenio/LSI, other). They also need to know
the IB stack (OFED, etc)<br>
and if it's a switch dependant stack, then the brand of switch (i.e-
voltaire, topspin, silverstorm) so they<br>
know what options to compile the Lustre source with. If you are using
CentOS, then you may get<br>
by with a prebuilt redhat kernel that comes with an older version of OFED
IB support in it. But, if<br>
the customer requires the latest version of OFED, then you're in for some
work. <br><br>
-Sam<br><br>
At 04:18 PM 4/28/2008, Chris Wood wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">ALl: <br>
<br>
We have in Hillsboro a test rig for our HPC Storage and Archive Solution,
<br>
and are charaterizing performance as I write this. Currently, it's the
<br>
SAM-QFS part with multiple QFS data movers. <br><br>
WHen we finish that part (2-3 weeks), we plan to add the Lustre part
<br>
(We're going to need some technical assistance then) and test <br>
several configurations for bandwidth etc. <br><br>
Net: Stay tuned - We'll have numbers and best practices to implement.
<br><br>
CW<br><br>
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Larry McIntosh wrote: <br>
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Brennan,<br><br>
One needs SAM-QFS Linux client on a given node that is a lustre
client. There <br>
can be multiples of these within a cluster. <br><br>
This client(s) can then move (copy data) between SAM and Lustre.<br><br>
This has been put in place at a number of places for Sun customers such
as DKRZ in Germany.<br><br>
This is a very basic solution today and we would like to see a tighter
integration <br>
between the Lustre and SAM development efforts to have this as a more
robust offering and <br>
SAM SW support for newer Linux Kernels.<br><br>
It is my understanding that this is underway. However for the time
being it will require <br>
the aforementioned type of client.<br><br>
Larry<br>
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Brennan wrote On 03/26/08 14:47,: <br>
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<pre>What is the process for integrating a Lustre+SAMFS solution into
an
existing customer environment. The plan is to have CRS build the
Lustre component, but Lustre and SAMFS will need to configured and
integrated into the customer computing environment. I am very
familiar with the SAMFS integration, but not Lustre integration.
Do we have resources in PS to provide the integration? Is this done
by the CFS organization?
Also, a small scale benchmark of the solution may be required.
Which
Benchmark center could provide Lustre support?
Thanks,
Jim Brennan
Digital Media Systems
Sun Systems Group
Universal City, CA
(310) 901-86777
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