Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre via 100G Ethernet or Infiniband

2020-09-15 Thread Angelos Ching
Infiniband shall give lower latency & CPU utilization and better real-world throughput, so that's probably better Lnet-wise. But Infiniband gears are more expensive so if taking budget into account, 100G Ethernet may work good-enough allowing saved cost be used to upgrade other parts of the

[lustre-discuss] Lustre via 100G Ethernet or Infiniband

2020-09-15 Thread Sid Young
With the growth of 100G ethernet, is it better to connect a lustre file server via EDR 100G Infiniband or 100G Ethernet for a 32 node HPC cluster running a typical life sciences - Genomics workload? Thoughts anyone? Sid Young ___ lustre-discuss