The GLOBAL storage system was procured with the VSC-3 in 2014 consisting of 384 x Toshiba MG03SCA200 2 TB disks. 48 Disks, 2 OSTs per Server. 1 Metadata Target per server.
Performance of the system has been measured with IOR running on 50 storage nodes with 2 processes / node.
The used BeeGFS configuration was:
* Striping 4 OSTs per File
* Chunksize 512KiB