Hero Run Best Practices

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Leads: Ben Evans, Andrew Uselton

The Hero Run team is tasked with:
 * Establishing a process to determine the peak streaming performance of a clustered filesystem (both read and write)
 * Describing what the test is doing, and detailing why we chose it over other options
 * Providing an optional form to detail the system that was tested (servers, targets, interconnect, clients, etc.)

The Hero Run team is optionally tasked with:
 * Establishing a process to determine the peak random I/O performance of a clustered filesystem (both read and write)
 * Describing what the test is doing, and detailing why we chose it over other options
 * Establishing an algorithm to combine Streaming read+write, Random read+write into a single number.

The Hero Run team is not tasked with:
 * Creating a Top500 list
 * Determining scaling (though the tests can be used to establish that)
 * Comparing vendors offerings, or maintaining a database of results.

Zero to Hero
Hero-Run-Zero-to-Hero

What goes into a hero run? A list of terms and concepts

Single shared file performance

Tools
For testing standard POSIX-compliant filesystems, IOR will be used along with an MPI infrastructure. IOR is available Here. Client allocation in the cluster is up to the team performing the test.

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