applications) and are presently consuming the data via NFS mounts (both groups have 10G ethernet interconnects between the Slurm nodes and the NFS servers.) They are both now complaining of "too-long loading times" for the
how about just using cachefs (backed by a local filesystem on ssd)? https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/storage_administration_guide/ch-fscache if files are being re-read, this would be effective, fast, and convenient, and wouldn't require any staging or hooks into Slurm. regards, mark hahn -- operator may differ from spokesperson. h...@mcmaster.ca
