From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Braam Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:51:23 -0700 Subject: [Lustre-devel] Thoughts on benchmarking In-Reply-To: <47C336C8.4090108@lbl.gov> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org Oh, and I forgot to say - WOW what a nice paper! - Peter - On 2/25/08 2:44 PM, "Andrew C. Uselton" wrote: > Howdy all, > I'd been in conversation with Cliff White over the last few weeks, and > he'd expressed an interest in having me post a draft of a report I've > been working on. If you've already heard of it here it is. For those > who hadn't I'll try to describe it briefly. > > In December I assisted with some Lustre benchmark tests on the > Franklin Cray XT here at NERSC. Since then I've tried to summarize our > analysis and results. The attached pdf is a draft of that summary. The > introduction is almost completely useless, so feel free to skip (unless > you want to have a laugh at the author's expense). Section 3 has the > main details about what we observed and what we thought about it. > Section 2 may be amusing for those (like me) who care about methodology. > Cheers, > Andrew >