Configuring NFS Server for Performance

Finally, a more detailed writeup on NFS configuration which I was hoping to blog. Finally it is done.
Do read Configuring NFS Server for Performance

Configure TCP for faster connections and transfers

On a default Linux Box, the TCP settings may not be optimise for “bigger” available network bandwidth connections and transfer available for 100MB+. Currently, most TCP settings are optimise for 10MB settings. For more information, on how to configure, read my Linux Cluster Blog Configure TCP for faster connections and transfers

NFS Client Recommended Configuration

NFS is one of the most commonly used file networked file system. Quite often we build it ourselves using standard out-of-the-box hardware we find. This NFS Client Recommended Configuration (my blog too) shows in slightly more details how to configure the mounting of the NFS clients

Compiling with MPI Parallel Library

This is a good site for MPICH Parallel Library Compilation from Duke University

booh - photo album generator

Booh is a free software static Web-Album generator for Linux. It takes series of photos and videos, and automatically build static web pages to browse them.

Booh has a number of unqiue features compared to the other dynamic web-album genertor. The fulling listings is at the Booh website. Here a subset of the list

1. automatic rotation of portrait photos thanks to information read in .jpg file (EXIF)
2. immediate display of images (preloading in browser)
3. sub-albums support
4. multi-processor support to speed up thumbnails generation
5. Full video support, including thumbnailing (with seek time specification possibility) and transcoding
6. ..... and much more. See Booh Website