commit f0c69d7316432e0e71f5e9547ea280a952234c7a
parent 233833911c02f6ba57cdad70ea9ccb789b396737
Author: Ivan Gankevich <igankevich@ya.ru>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:41:08 +0300
Clarify which FS was used.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/body.tex b/src/body.tex
@@ -212,25 +212,23 @@ embarrassingly parallel with little synchronisation between concurrent
processes.
All experiments were run on physical computer cluster consisting of 12 nodes.
-Wavy ocean surface parts were written to local file system to eliminate
-overhead of parallel writing to NFS from the total application performance.
-The input data was read from Network File System (NFS) mounted on each node, as
-it is much smaller in size than the output data and does not cause big
-overhead. Platform configuration is presented in
-Table~\ref{tab:platform-configuration}.
+Wavy ocean surface parts were written to Network File System (NFS) which is
+located on a dedicated server. The input data was read from NFS mounted on each
+node, as it is small in size and does not cause big overhead. Platform
+configuration is presented in Table~\ref{tab:platform-configuration}.
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Test platform configuration.\label{tab:platform-configuration}}
- \begin{tabular}{ll}
- \toprule
- CPU & Intel Xeon E5440, 2.83GHz \\
- RAM & 4Gb \\
- HDD & ST3250310NS, 7200rpm \\
- No. of nodes & 12 \\
- No. of CPU cores per node & 8 \\
- \bottomrule
- \end{tabular}
+ \begin{tabular}{ll}
+ \toprule
+ CPU & Intel Xeon E5440, 2.83GHz \\
+ RAM & 4Gb \\
+ HDD & ST3250310NS, 7200rpm \\
+ No. of nodes & 12 \\
+ No. of CPU cores per node & 8 \\
+ \bottomrule
+ \end{tabular}
\end{table}
The first failure scenario (see Section~\ref{sec:failure-scenarios}) was
