Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS4TablesTable 1. NFS server and storage hardware configuration ...................................................... 8Table 2. NFS server software and firmware configuration..................................................... 9Table 3. Hardware configuration for DFC ....................................................................... 10Table 4. Software and firmware configuration for DFC ...................................................... 10Table 5. I/O cluster details ........................................................................................ 11FiguresFigure 1. NFS storage solution ....................................................................................... 7Figure 2. NFS server ................................................................................................... 8Figure 3. Test bed ................................................................................................... 12Figure 4. PCIe SSD health ........................................................................................... 15Figure 5. Large sequential write performance.................................................................. 18Figure 6. Large sequential read performance .................................................................. 18Figure 7. Random write performance ............................................................................ 19Figure 8. Random read performance ............................................................................. 20Figure 9. Metadata file create performance .................................................................... 21Figure 10. Metadata file stat performance ....................................................................... 21Figure 11. Metadata file remove performance ................................................................... 22Figure 12. Cold-cache sequential reads ........................................................................... 23Figure 13. Cold-cache random reads ............................................................................... 23Figure 14. CacheIO-DiskIO on cold-cache reads .................................................................. 24Figure 15. Solution cabling .......................................................................................... 28