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Does PVFS require any particular hardware?

April 26, 2017hardware particular pvfs require

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Does PVFS require any particular hardware?

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Other than hardware supported by the Linux OS, no. PVFS uses existing network infrastructure for communication and can currently operate over TCP, Myrinet, and InfiniBand. Disk local to servers is used for PVFS storage, so no storage area network (SAN) is required either (although it can be helpful when setting up fault tolerant solutions; see Section 7.