> > Just curious if GFS can be used in a HPC environment, like GPFS or
> > Oracle OCFS2?
> I don't think so. Comments from people in the HPC-business indicate that
> it doesn't scale to the number of nodes that typically forms these kinds
> of environments.
>
> NFS still rulez there, together with more (ISILON/Panasas) or less (SUN)
> specialized NFS-serving-gear.
> Rainer
NFS (<4.1) doesn't scale either. I would say that GPFS and Lustre is more
usable than NFS in an HPC environment. You need a parallell file system
when the data rates gets higher. But much depends on the I/O-profile of
the jobs.
/jens
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