Here at school we ran lam off of a AFS mount, which is similar to your
NFS system. Not a huge speed decrease, that we noticed.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hagedorn [mailto:dave.hagedorn_at_[hidden]]
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:23 AM
To: lam_at_[hidden]
Subject: LAM: Running LAM off NFS
Hi everyone,
Just wondering if anyone has noticed any performance differences in
runnnig lam off of an NFS mount as opposed to running locally.
We've got a 14-node cluster set up where I work. There is also a
storage server with a RAID array. All of the nodes and storage server
are connected with gigabit ethernet through a single switch. We've
stored lam + our program (LS-DYNA) on an NFS mount which all of the
nodes access. In addition, our home directories are mounted via NFS,
so all output fies from LS-DYNA gets sent across the netowrk. These
files typically amount to 2 GB or so, usually written over the course
of a days or more.
Does anyone think this setup could cmpromise overall performance? We
haven't tried intstalling anything locally - the NFS setup is really
convenient.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Hagedorn
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