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

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