ZFS Tuning for HPC

The Author

Petros Koutoupis is currently a senior performance software engineer at Cray for its Lustre High Performance File System division. He is also the creator and maintainer of the RapidDisk Project. Petros has worked in the data storage industry for well over a decade and has helped to pioneer the many technologies unleashed in the wild today.

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