Performance Evaluation of the CXFS File System on the HPC/Storage Complex for data-intensive computing at the TU Dresden
Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Michael.Kluge@tu-dresden.de
Received:
Rec. 14 September 2006
DOI: 10.12921/cmst.2006.SI.01.29-32
OAI: oai:lib.psnc.pl:600
Abstract:
In the 3rd quarter 2005 the Technische Universität Dresden started to install the first phase of a new SGI supercomputer and a PC farm build by LinuxNetworX. The final phase of the installation will take place in July/August 2006. One main focus of the installation is to have not just outstanding I/O-Performance for the disk to memory channel but for the tape to disk channel too. In this paper we will show how our setup looks like and what our expectations for the performance are. We will also present some measurements done on the system and show the performance boundaries of the current setup.
Key words:
References:
[1] L. Shepard and E. Eppe, SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS: A High-Performance, Multi-OS Filesystem from SGI. Technical report, SGI (2004).
[2] L. Shepard, SGI InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF); A New Frontier in Data Lifecycle Management. Technical report, SGI, 2004.
[3] Cluster Filesystems Inc. Selecting a Scalable Cluster File System. Technical report, Cluster Filesystems Inc., Nov 2005.
[4] Craig A. Stewart, D. Hart, R. Sheppard and R. Cruise, Parallel computing in biomedicine: current examples and the search for peta-scale applications. In: G. R. Joubert et.
al. (eds.) Advances in Parallel Computing, 13, 719-726, Elsevier (2004).
In the 3rd quarter 2005 the Technische Universität Dresden started to install the first phase of a new SGI supercomputer and a PC farm build by LinuxNetworX. The final phase of the installation will take place in July/August 2006. One main focus of the installation is to have not just outstanding I/O-Performance for the disk to memory channel but for the tape to disk channel too. In this paper we will show how our setup looks like and what our expectations for the performance are. We will also present some measurements done on the system and show the performance boundaries of the current setup.
Key words:
References:
[1] L. Shepard and E. Eppe, SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS: A High-Performance, Multi-OS Filesystem from SGI. Technical report, SGI (2004).
[2] L. Shepard, SGI InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF); A New Frontier in Data Lifecycle Management. Technical report, SGI, 2004.
[3] Cluster Filesystems Inc. Selecting a Scalable Cluster File System. Technical report, Cluster Filesystems Inc., Nov 2005.
[4] Craig A. Stewart, D. Hart, R. Sheppard and R. Cruise, Parallel computing in biomedicine: current examples and the search for peta-scale applications. In: G. R. Joubert et.
al. (eds.) Advances in Parallel Computing, 13, 719-726, Elsevier (2004).
