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WIP: mermaid-based storage architecture diagrams

Is there any appetite for using procedurally generated architecture diagrams for storage to replace the static and out-of-date one currently on the website?

I used mermaid to generate an updated Cori-Lustre-CFS diagram, but frankly, it's ugly. I can futz with it more to see if there are ways to use CSS to cut back on the whitespace, color things better, etc. However I didn't want to put a bunch of time into this if it's a bad idea.

I am happy to provide better storage architecture diagrams at any rate, and I'd prefer to do them procedurally (whether it be matplotlib -> png/svg, or graphviz -> png/svg, or whatever else) so we have a hope of keeping them a little more up-to-date as we upgrade all the storage systems over the next two or three years.

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