[Swift-devel] several alternatives to design the data management system for Swift on SuperComputers

[Ian Foster]

We should definitely be talking with Rob Ross and the PVFS people  
about this. Also with the other groups that we are already in close  
contact with, e.g., Doug Thain and Matei Ripeanu.


On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:45 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
>
>> Do you mean building some general purpose posix shared file system?  
>> If so,
>> this seems quite hard, and seems directly in competition with PVFS  
>> and
>> GPFS, a competition which you are pretty much guaranteed to lose.
>
> I thought about that a bit. Perhaps it's not such a bad idea in
> principle. On such large yet tightly coupled systems it may be
> interesting to explore a p2p filesystem.
>
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