On 13/12/2021 00:03, Andrew Beattie wrote:
What is the main outcome or business requirement of the teaching cluster
( i notice your specific in the use of defining it as a teaching cluster)
It is entirely possible that the use case for this cluster does not
warrant the use of high speed low lat
Jonathan,
What is the main outcome or business requirement of the teaching cluster ( i notice your specific in the use of defining it as a teaching cluster)
It is entirely possible that the use case for this cluster does not warrant the use of high speed low latency networking, and it simply need
So I never said this node wasn't in a HPC Cluster, it has partners... For
our use case however some nodes have very expensive per core software
licensing, and we have to weigh the human costs of empowering traditional
monolithic code to do the job, or bringing in more users to re-write and
maintai
On 12/12/2021 02:19, Alec wrote:
I feel the need to respond here... I see many responses on this
User Group forum that are dismissive of the fringe / extreme use
cases and of the "what do you need that for '' mindset. The thing is
that Spectrum Scale is for the extreme, just take the word "Par
I feel the need to respond here... I see many responses on this User Group
forum that are dismissive of the fringe / extreme use cases and of the
"what do you need that for '' mindset. The thing is that Spectrum Scale is
for the extreme, just take the word "Parallel" in the old moniker that was
a
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA
Jonathan:
You posed a reasonable question, which was "when is RDMA worth the hassle?" I
agree with part of your premises, which is that it only matters whe
this time ... )
Best regards
Walter
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On Behalf Of Douglas O'flaherty
Sent: Freitag, 10. Dezember 2021 05:24
To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA
Jonathan:
You posed a reasonable
Jonathan:
You posed a reasonable question, which was "when is RDMA worth the
hassle?" I agree with part of your premises, which is that it only
matters when the bottleneck isn't somewhere else. With a parallel file
system, like Scale/GPFS, the absolute performance bottleneck is not the
throug
