Openstack HPC storage suggestion

Mark Goddard mark at stackhpc.com
Thu Mar 3 09:11:24 UTC 2022


I would recommend attending the Scientific SIG meetings if you are
looking for people with this kind of information.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG

Mark

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 08:28, Mahendra Paipuri <mahendra.paipuri at cnrs.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are quite interested in this too. When we were looking into existing
> solutions, we found there has been some work in integrating LUSTRE into
> OpenStack [1], [2]. I remember coming across some Openinfra talks on
> developing a manila backend driver for LUSTRE. I am not quite sure if
> this project is still ongoing. Manila already provides a backend driver
> for GPFS [3] (unfortunately GPFS is not opensource) to readily integrate
> it into Openstack. Manila supports GlusterFS and CephFS as well but they
> do not have RDMA support (if I am not wrong).
>
> This is pretty much what we found. Would be glad explore more solutions
> if someone knows any.
>
> Cheers
>
> -
>
> Mahendra
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kGRzcdVQX95abei1bDVoRzxyC02i89_m5_sOfp8Aq6o/htmlpresent
>
> [2]
> https://www.openstack.org/videos/summits/barcelona-2016/lustre-integration-for-hpc-on-openstack-at-cambridge-and-monash
>
> [3] https://docs.openstack.org/manila/latest/admin/gpfs_driver.html
>
> On 03/03/2022 04:47, Satish Patel wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I built a 30 node HPC environment on openstack using mellanox
> > infiniband nic for high speed MPI messaging. So far everything works.
> > Now I am looking for a HPC PFS (parallel file system)  similar to
> > Luster which I can mount on all HPC vms to run MPI jobs.
> >
> > I was reading on google and saw some CERN videos and they are using
> > Ceph (cephfs) for PFS. Also i was reading CephFS + Manila is a good
> > choice for HPC on openstack design.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with HPC storage for Openstack? Please
> > advice or share your experience :)  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > ~S
>



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