On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Osborne, Darryl <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, thanks for developing and maintaining GNU Parallel. It’s an essential > tool and I recommend it in just about every customer call, talk, or > presentation I give. Happy to hear that. I believe I linked to one of your presentations in the release notes for 20170122: * AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic File System (STG202) slide 45 http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-reinvent-2016-deep-dive-on-amazon-elastic-file-system-stg202 and https://youtu.be/PlTuJx4VnGw?t=30m16s > Second, I don’t know if you’re aware but parallel is now included in the > Amazon repository so AWS customers running Amazon Linux can easily install > it with a simple “sudo yum install parallel –y” command. I was not aware of that. > One of my sample tutorial results sums it up well. In this example > (attached) when I combined GNU parallel and standard Linux copy commands > like cp and cpio, I achieved a throughput increase of 690% and transferred > files 7.9 times faster when compared to using the copy commands alone. Good to see. Do you know what the theoretical max is? > Have you had a chance to play around with Amazon EFS? I’d be curious to hear > your feedback. I have yet to have a job where I needed EFS. /Ole
