[MPICH] ROMIO + NFS

[Rajeev Thakur]

NFS performance for parallel I/O is usually bad because we have to disable
client-side caching to get the right consistency semantics. So we don't
recommend using NFS other than for testing and development. You can look
into using a real parallel file system such as PVFS (which is free).

Rajeev 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Adams, 
> Samuel D Contr AFRL/HEDR
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:41 PM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [MPICH] ROMIO + NFS
> 
> I have been getting very bad performance on a cluster that runs RHEL5
> and uses NFS for the file system.  As directed in the documentation, I
> have file systems mounted with the "noac" option.  Is there something
> else I am missing?
> 
> Sam Adams
> General Dynamics Information Technology
> Phone: 210.536.5945
> 
>