Still looking for use cases and opinions for Gluster in an education / HPC environment. Thanks. > On Nov 4, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Thomas Wakefield <dwakefi2@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Everyone, thanks in advance. > > We are looking to add a large filesystem to our compute facility at GMU. We are investigating if Gluster can work in a University setting for some HPC work, and general research computing. Does anyone have use cases where Gluster has been used in a university setting? > > The idea we have is to build a 2-3PB GlusterFS system. We would probably use commodity 1u servers with 60 drive JBODS attached, from a reputable vendor (Dell, HP, etc). Is 60 the maximum number of drives that’s recommended per server, or could we use 2 jbods per server? Everything will be connected to a 10GB network. Clients are mostly linux. > > Are there ways to minimize the latency for stat commands like ls and du? We have some previous experience with Gluster and found the stat performance to be sluggish frequently. > > Thanks, > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
