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Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS

OFED

Mellanox OFED 1.5.3-3.0.0

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Figure 3.

2.4. Solution tuning

The NFS server and the attached storage arrays are configured and tuned for optimal performance.
These options were selected based on extensive studies done by the Dell HPC team. Results of these
studies and the tradeoffs of the tuning options are available in [4].

Additionally the DFC configuration was tuned based on experience gained from this study.

This section provides a quick summary of some of the optimizations applied to the storage solution.
Detailed instructions on configuring this storage solution are provided in Appendix A: Step-by-step
configuration of Dell Fluid Cache for NFS.