Sharing data saves space, reduces data skew, and improves data management. We look at the SSHFS shared filesystem, put it through some performance tests, and show you how to tune it.
In the third article of this three-part series, we look at simple write examples in Python and track the output with strace to see how it affects I/O patterns and performance.
In the second article of this three-part series, we look at simple write examples in Fortran 90 and track the output with strace to see how it affects I/O patterns and performance.