Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher J.Walker
> said:
>> Instead of using the "file" protocol and 10*10Gbit links to
>> the storage,
>> jobs are still using the gridftp and rfio protocols. This means they
>> talk via a single 1Gbit link to the storage.
>
> Does storm have no provision for running multiple gridftp or rfio
> servers?
>
I believe it does.
But it seems a frightful waste of time, effort and money to install
several machines (presumably with 10Gbit ethernet cards) purely to allow
a worker node to copy a file from a filesystem it has mounted to its
local disk.
Chris
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