Dell PowerVault MD1200 - Manual (Page 23)

Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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Figure 12 shows that on a cold-cache read for sequential tests, the throughput of the DFC configuration
drops from a peak of ~3,050 MiB/s to ~1,050 Mi/s. Data needs to be pulled from backend storage and
hence the drop in performance. This is lower than the baseline throughput.
Cold-cache sequential reads Figure 12.
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