On Jun 7, 2008, at 6:28 AM, aix tiger wrote:
> I do have a technical query... I have reviewed all lam technical
> infrastructure requirement and astonished to see that LAM clusters
> are still using NFS between cluster nodes on private network....
> although there are lot of cluster filesystems are available in market.
>
> Can i use GFS from red hat, or gpfs from ibm or veritas cluster
> filesystem instead of using NFS , while building lam clusters? Do i
> require any certification from LAM itself for this purpose?
>
> Please advice, as i think that a cluster filesystem can contribute
> heavily in lam clusters and parrallel computing...
LAM/MPI uses Argonne's ROMIO package to implement the MPI-2 I/O
chapter, although it unfortunately uses a very old version. The
version shipped with LAM/MPI has support for a variety of underlying
filesystems and I believe others like GFS are supported by using the
NFS device.
Hope this helps,
Brian
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Brian Barrett
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