HPC Software-Defined Storage with PixStor

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  Executive summary
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  Document purpose
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  Audience

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  Market environment
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  Building-Block Approach
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  High Availability

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  Configurations
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  Introduction
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  System Design

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  Overview
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  High-Speed, Management and SAS Connections
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  Storage Configuration on ME4 Arrays
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  NVMe Tier Configuration
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  Gateway Nodes
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  Ngenea Nodes

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  Benchmarks selected and test beds

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  PixStor storage solution with high-demand metadata module without capacity expansion PowerVault ME484s
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  Sequential IOzone Performance N Clients to N Files
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  Sequential IOR Performance N Clients to 1 File
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  Random Small Blocks IOzone Performance N Clients to N Files
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  Metadata Performance with MDtest Using Empty Files
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  Metadata Performance with MDtest Using 4 KiB Files
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  Summary

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  PixStor solution with capacity expansion and high-demand metadata
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  Sequential IOzone Performance N Clients to N Files
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  Sequential IOR Performance N Clients to 1 File
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  Random Small Blocks IOzone Performance N Clients to N Files
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  Metadata Performance
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  Summary

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  Summary

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  Summary
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  References

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  Benchmark Reference
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  IOzone
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  IOR (N to 1)
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  MDtest