As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is not good unless you're doing a massively parallel read (what it was designed for). I can elaborate why if anyone is actually interested.
We use Lustre for our high performance general storage. I don't have any numbers, but I'm pretty sure it is *really* fast (10Gbit/s over IB sounds familiar, but don't quote me on that). > > Personally, I would read up on these and see how they work. Then, > based on that, decide if they are likely to assist in the specific > situation you are interested in. > Always good advice. Alec
