Re: [netcdf-java] [thredds] improved performances through GPFS

Hi Thomas:

TDS uses standard Java interfaces to the filesystem, so it wouldnt be
taking advantage of anything that needed special commands. Both the netcdf
library and TDS are thread-safe, so can scale up to large number of
simultaneous requests, so it seems likely that a clustered Tomcat
environment would work well.

Perhaps by distributing data correctly over data nodes, significant
improvements might be possible. So much depends on access patterns, so a
good way to proceed would be to create a synthentic load (eg script a bunch
of requests to the TDS) that mimics what you expect users to need, and
measure performance as you modify your system.

I dont know enough about GPFS to know what features could be used to go
beyond what you get from posix API. Anyone else?

John

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Thomas LOUBRIEU <thomas.loubrieu@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In our data center, the new high-performance clustered file system we're
> going to use is GPFS (General Parallel File System). I am wondering is
> java-netcdf library or thredds data server can take benefit of this high
> performance file system if the netcdf files are stored on it ?
>
> Are you aware of work being done or systems working with GPFS or otherwise
> on similar high performance systems (HDFS, moosefs, ...). I am definitely
> not an expert and any information regarding reading netcdf in java on these
> clustered file system (preferably GPFS) would help us very much.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
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