[Beowulf] Red Hat buys Inktank, maker of Ceph

Prentice Bisbal prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu
Wed Apr 30 09:52:10 PDT 2014


On 04/30/2014 12:15 PM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> On 30 April 2014 15:05, Prentice Bisbal <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> On 04/30/2014 08:34 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
>>> So Red Hat now has Glusterfs and Ceph.  Interesting..
>>>
>>> http://www.redhat.com/inktank/
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Chris
>>
>> Gluster never seemed to gain the traction of Lustre or GPFS, though.
> In the grand scheme of things, away from our little world of HPC;
> Gluster *may* have a much much bigger install base and a more active
> developer base than Lustre or GPFS. Googling "lustre+linux (About
> 1,480,000 results)" vs "gluster+linux (About 147,000 results)"
> suggests otherwise :)
>
> Comparing Lustre or GPFS with Gluster is not a helpful exercise I
> think. Apples with oranges.....

Do you have your numbers wrong in the above post? 1,480,000 >> 147,000 
hits.







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