A parallel file system offers several advantages over a single direct attached file system. By using fast, scalable, external disk systems with massively parallel access to data, researchers can ...

When it comes to parallel file systems, few people understand the evolution of challenges better than Sven Oehme, who was part of the original team at IBM building GPFS. Following almost a quarter ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasas ®, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, today announced that its re-engineered PanFS ® parallel file system, delivered on ...

We spent some time at the end of 2018 getting a handle on how parallel file systems in HPC need to evolve to meet the shifting demands in workloads driven by machine learning. Since that time, we have ...

Usage of parallel file systems was confined to mainframes and high-performance computing (HOC) environments. But as more advanced analytics applications are built, more enterprise IT organizations are ...

Today Fraunhofer in Germany announced a new release of the FhGFS parallel file system with major performance and HA improvements. Available as a free download, FhGFS features a distributed metadata ...

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop. Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file serving The Network File System (NFS) is the ...

Researchers normally collect accolades at the end of their careers. But the U.S. Department of Energy goes out of its way to salute up-and-coming talent with its Presidential Early Career Awards for ...

IBM has announced that it will begin shipping version 3.2 of its General Parallel File System (GPFS) software on October 5, 2007. GPFS enables high-end technical and high performance computing, and it ...