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Testing was performed in Dell labs with various applications. These applications include:
At the Dell Solutions lab in Round Rock, TX, a 3-node F600 cluster running OneFS 9.2.2 was connected using 100 GbE to three GPU equipped Dell R740 servers. The network ports were configured at 9000MTU and flow control enabled on switch ports.
Two sets of tests were run in this environment: FileStream and DaVinci Resolve. The client systems ran a base install of CentOS 7.9. The only performance tweaks performed on the client side were configuring the system BIOS for performance mode and disabling SE Linux in /etc/selinux/config. On the OneFS storage side, streaming mode was enabled for directories with video files and filename-based prefetch was enabled for directories with image sequences. OneFS inline deduplication and compression were disabled.
In the Seattle media lab, a 4-node F800 cluster running OneFS 9.2.2 was connected to a Dell Precision 7920 workstation. The network ports were configured at 9000MTU and flow control enabled on switch ports. FileStream and Autodesk Flame 2022 were tested against this cluster. The workstation ran the Autodesk provided Flame ISO with no tweaks beyond configuring the workstation BIOS for performance mode. An AJA Kona4 card provided broadcast output on the Flame workstation. The F800 had streaming mode enabled for directories with media files and filename-based prefetch configured for directories with image sequences.