[gpfsug-discuss] WekaIO Unveils Cloud-Native Scalable File System

[Edward Wahl]

Ah benchmarks...

There are Lies, damn Lies, and then benchmarks. 

 I've been in HPC a while on both the vendor (Cray) and customer side, and until
 I see Lustre, BeeGFS, Spectrum Scale, StorNext, OrangeFS, CEPH, Gluster,
 'Flash in the pan v1', etc. all run on the EXACT same hardware I take ALL
 benchmarks with a POUND of salt.  Too easy to finagle whatever result you
 want.  Besides, benchmarks and real world performance are vastly different
 unless you are using IO kernels based on your local apps as your benchmark.

I have a feeling MANY of the folks on this list feel similarly. ;)

I recall when we figured out how someone cheated a SPEC test once by only using
the inner-track of drives.  ^_^  

Ed


On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:06:40 +0000
"Oesterlin, Robert" <Robert.Oesterlin at nuance.com> wrote:

> Interesting. Performance is one thing, but how usable. IBM, watch your
> back :-)
> 
> “WekaIO is the world’s fastest distributed file system, processing four times
> the workload compared to IBM Spectrum Scale measured on Standard Performance
> Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) SFS 2014, an independent industry benchmark.
> Utilizing only 120 cloud compute instances with locally attached storage,
> WekaIO completed 1,000 simultaneous software builds compared to 240 on IBM’s
> high-end FlashSystem 900.”
> 
> https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/wekaio-unveils-cloud-native-scalable-file-system/
> 
> Bob Oesterlin
> Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance
> 507-269-0413


 



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Ed Wahl
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