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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I help to run a gpfs cluster at the Met Office, Exeter, UK.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The cluster is running GPFS 4.2.2.2, it’s used with slurm for batch work - primarily for postprocessing weather and climate change model data generated from our HPC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We currently have 8 NSD nodes with approx 3PB of storage with 70+ client nodes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Neil<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neil Wilson Senior IT Practitioner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Storage Team IT Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Met
<ns1:address><ns1:Street>Office <span style="font-weight:normal">FitzRoy Road</ns1:Street></span><span style="font-weight:normal">
<ns1:City>Exeter</ns1:City></ns1:address></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Devon EX1 3PB
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Email:
<a href="mailto:neil.wilson@metoffice.gov.uk">neil.wilson@metoffice.gov.uk</a> Website
<a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/">www.metoffice.gov.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our magazine Barometer is now available online at <a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/barometer/">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/barometer/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:green">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Thank you.</span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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