Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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Tables
Table 1.
NFS server and storage hardware configuration ...................................................... 8
Table 2.
NFS server software and firmware configuration ..................................................... 9
Table 3.
Hardware configuration for DFC ....................................................................... 10
Table 4.
Software and firmware configuration for DFC ...................................................... 10
Table 5.
I/O cluster details ........................................................................................ 11
Figures
Figure 1.
NFS storage solution ....................................................................................... 7
Figure 2.
NFS server ................................................................................................... 8
Figure 3.
Test bed ................................................................................................... 12
Figure 4.
PCIe SSD health ........................................................................................... 15
Figure 5.
Large sequential write performance.................................................................. 18
Figure 6.
Large sequential read performance .................................................................. 18
Figure 7.
Random write performance ............................................................................ 19
Figure 8.
Random read performance ............................................................................. 20
Figure 9.
Metadata file create performance .................................................................... 21
Figure 10.
Metadata file stat performance ....................................................................... 21
Figure 11.
Metadata file remove performance ................................................................... 22
Figure 12.
Cold-cache sequential reads ........................................................................... 23
Figure 13.
Cold-cache random reads ............................................................................... 23
Figure 14.
CacheIO-DiskIO on cold-cache reads .................................................................. 24
Figure 15.
Solution cabling .......................................................................................... 28
