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Our Experience and Future Direction

Experience:
  • Be very careful when choosing cluster vendors. We had good experience with Microway and extremely bad one with Aspen, including the quality of the parts, assembly, and tech support.

  • Educate users about the cluster and SGE commands.

  • Integration of Parallel applications with SGE.

  • NFS is not great for Parallel HPC.

    Future Directions:
  • Implement High Performance File system, such as Lustre or PVFSv2.

  • Migrate the cluster from RH 7.3 to Debian.


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