[gpfsug-discuss] FYI, Spectrum Scale 5.0.1 is out -NSD Checksum

[valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 11 May 2018 19:02:30 -0000, "Daniel Kidger" said:

> Remember too that ESS uses powerful processors in order to do the erasure
> coding and hence has performance to do checksums too. Traditionally ordinary
> NSD servers are merely ‘routers’ and as such are often using low spec cpus
> which may not be fast enough for the extra load?

More to the point - if you're at all clever, you can do the erasure encoding in such
a way that a perfectly usable checksum just drops out the bottom free of charge,
so no additional performance is needed to checksum stuff....

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