You have NUFA scheduler to address this need. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Jordan Mendler <jmendler@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > This question is a bit more distant. Is there a way to have the scheduler > find the fastest-link/nearest storage brick and send files there? I ask > because we have a grant pending which would allow us to build a ~128 node > compute-cluster, but storage will also be a very large factor. My thought > is > that by having compute-nodes also act as storage nodes we can more > efficiently utilize hardware (of course using a large # of AFR's for > safety), and buy more nodes that will be better utilized rather than > spending an extra ~$200-300/TB on storage servers/enclosures. > > So coming back to network-speed scheduling, would there be a way to have > each node prefer writing to it's locally hosted gluster brick, to then be > AFR replicated to its close-by nodes that are on the same switch? Also, > has > anyone attempted this kind of combined setup of Gluster across > compute-nodes? > > Thanks so much, > Jordan > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
