Playing with NFS & GlusterFS on Amazon cc1.4xlarge EC2 instance types
Experimenting with shared filesystems on the Amazon cc1.4xlarge EC2 “compute cluster” instance types.
Tag: "ebs"
Boot, ephemeral & EBS storage performance on amazon cc1.4xlarge instance types
Backstory For background and summary writeups of all the various blog posts we have dealing with the new Amazon EC2 “compute cluster” cc1.4xlarge instance types please refer to this summary page: http://www.bioteam.net/2010/07/19/exploring-the-new-aws-compute-cluster-ec2-instances/? Related post We talked about the performance of the boot and ephemeral storage in this post: http://www.bioteam.net/2010/07/19/local-storage-performance-of-aws-cluster-compute-instances/? This post In this post I’ve finally collected [...]
Jul 20, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
How to resize an Amazon EC2 AMI when boot disk is on EBS
Note Screwing around with the boot volume is part of our regular “explore around the edges” work before we get serious with how we are going to configure and orchestrate the new systems. The boot volume in this scenario does not have PV driver support and thus will perform slower than the actual ephemeral storage. [...]
Jul 14, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
Preliminary EBS performance on Amazon Compute Cluster cc1.4xlarge instance types
Post Update History: July 13th – Original post July 14th – More results from cc1.4xlarge single-disk & initial results from c1.xlarge instance type, uploaded new version of the raw data spreadsheet to Google Docs. Updated all graphs. July 19th – Lots more data (including ephemeral storage) added to the raw data spreadsheet on Google Docs [...]
Jul 13, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
