Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
by _delirium on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:27PM
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One of the things that imo has pushed some of the other Unixes out of HPC is the move to using cluster file systems. Any Unix supports a traditional NFS-mounted NAS solution for storage, as used to be typical in HPC clusters (and still is fairly common in smaller installations at universities). But only AIX and Linux really have solid cluster filesystems; there's nothing in the BSD world analogous to IBM GPFS, or to Lustre, and porting is nontrivial.
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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
by TallGuyShort on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:47AM
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I think you're right. DragonflyBSD probably isn't widely used enough to be trusted by high-budget HPC projects anyway, but I was under the impression their HAMMER filesystem was a cluster file system. Looking at the website now I can't seem to find support for that, though...
Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
by _delirium on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @06:15PM
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It's one of DragonFly's goals, but afaik the clustering support is scheduled for the HAMMER2 rewrite that's still in progress: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00...