Performance test environment configurations

This section details the specific hardware and software configurations used to generate the example performance results.

AWS configuration

AWS cluster

• Stripe Size: 4+2

• 8 backend server instances of i3en.12xlarge, placed in the same placement group

• OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09.0.20170930 x86_64 HVM

• 7 dedicated cores for WEKA (4 compute, 2 drives, 1 frontend)

AWS clients

• c5n.18xlarge instances; 8 clients were used for aggregated results

• OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09.0.20170930 x86_64 HVM

• 4 frontend cores

• DPDK networking

• Mount options: system defaults

SuperMicro configuration

SuperMicro cluster

• Stripe Size: 4+2

• 8 backend servers (SYS-2029BT-HNR / X11DPT-B)

• OS: CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003

• CPU: 24/48 Threads (Intel Xeon Gold 6126 CPU @ 2.60GHz)

• Memory: 384 GB

• Drives: 6x Micron 9300 drives

• Network: Dual 100 Gbps Ethernet

• 19 dedicated cores for WEKA (12 compute, 6 drives, 1 frontend)

SuperMicro clients

• SYS-2029BT-HNR / X11DPT-B servers; 8 clients were used for aggregated results

• OS: CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003

• CPU: 24/48 Threads (Intel Xeon Gold 6126 CPU @ 2.60GHz)

• Memory: 192 GB

• Network: Dual 100 Gbps Ethernet

• 6 frontend cores

• DPDK networking

• Mount options: system defaults