Nope, measured nothing! Had hoped someone had already done it! Plan would be to play around with an infiniband switch and a bunch of nodes, testing both hard drives, ssd and ram disks. Whenever I get the time... Regards, /jon On 05/27/2011 08:55 PM, Berend de Boer wrote: >>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Tegner<tegner at renget.se> writes: > Jon> A general question, suppose I have a parallel application, > Jon> using mpi, where really fast access to the file system is > Jon> critical. > > Jon> Would it be stupid to consider a ram disk based setup? > > You really measured that infiband and 15,000rpm disks, and a lot of > striped gluster nodes can't give you that right? >