Effectively monitoring your cluster can be one of the keys to understanding how the hardware and software are interacting. In many cases, this means examining the performance of a single node.

HPC Storage is arguably one of the most pressing issues in HPC. Selecting various HPC Storage solutions is a problem that requires some research, study, and planning to be effective – particularly cost-effective. Getting this process started usually means understanding how your applications perform I/O. This article presents some techniques for examining I/O patterns in HPC applications.