Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS254. ConclusionThis Dell technical white paper describes a method to improve NFS performance using Dell FluidCache for DAS in an HPC environment. It presents measured cluster-level results of several differentI/O patterns to quantify the performance of a tuned NFS solution and measure the performance boostprovided by DFC.The test results in this paper indicate that DFC is a great fit for environments where:• There is heavy read I/O workload, either sequential or random reads.• Heavy random write I/O workload with a large number of clients writing to the storage.• Lots of clients are performing I/O at the same time.• Mixed I/O workload where it is critical to sustain a balance between throughput and IOPs andan SSD based solution is the best fit.5. References1. Dell High-performance Computing NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/d/hpcc/storage-dell-nss2. Solid State Drive vs. Hard Disk Drive Price and Performance Studyhttp://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/ssd_vs_hdd_price_and_performance_study.pdf3. Dell Fluid Cache for DASDell Fluid Cache for DAS User’s Guide at www.dell.com/supporthttp://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r720/pd4. NFS tuning and the optimized Dell NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)Dell™ HPC NFS Storage SolutionDell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12thGeneration Servershttp://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/engineering-docs/en/Documents/hpc-nfs-storage-solution.pdfOptimizing DELL™ PowerVault™ MD1200 Storage Arrays for High Performance Computing (HPC)Deployments5. Dell PowerEdge M420 bladehttp://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-m420/pd?~ck=anav6. XFS bugzilla referencehttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8131377. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator