I guess this is before your time Chris but it does raise the question of
what user requirements you were planning for when you bought this.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher J.Walker
> Sent: 04 June 2009 18:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: QMUL Status 4th June 2009
>
> 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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