Stephen Wanless
Global Linux Product Strategist
Dell Inc.
Lørdag 13.30—14.15 i M3.
Designing Cluster File Systems for High Performance Computing
Linux is being deployed more and more in the area of High Performance Computational
Clusters. Generally, the focus of attention in these deployments is the computational performance that can be applied by the multiple CPU's within the cluster. As the number of CPU's rises, so the design of the systems I/O system becomes more and more important to overall throughput.
In this session we will explore the design choices of an I/O subsystem, which includes the storage, Interconnects, and the parallel file systems. The next generation of the I/O components will also be discussed, with a few viable architectures.
Stephen Wanless
Mr Wanless is the Product Strategist and manager for the Linux program at Dell Inc, based in Austin Texas. He has been in this role for the last 3 years and is responsible for Dell's Linux strategy as well as the availability of Linux across Dell's entire server product line.
Prior to Dell, Mr. Wanless was very active in the Unix community and Unix vendors for approximately 15 years, working for Sun Microsystems and Sequent Computer Systems Inc. While at Sequent, Mr Wanless ran the European Product Marketing organisation before relocating to the USA to manage the NUMA marketing organisation. Mr Wanless has a wide range of technical experience having started in the industry as an assembly programmer working on the first real time flight simulators to be based on standard Operating Systems.