When compared to other file systems, OrangeFS provides users with two key benefits: OrangeFS is one of the best performing parallel file systems available. Based on the powerful, modular PVFS ...

As someone who has devoted a career to parallel file systems, hearing that a change in HPC workloads is stretching those file systems to their limits invokes strong opinions. Oehme says there is no ...

Hammerspace isn’t the first distributed file system to teach NFS or SMB new tricks. In fact, the company’s parallel file system rides atop the parallelism built into NFS 4.2. One of Hammerspace’s ...

Today ThinkParQ announced that the complete BeeGFS parallel file system is now available as open source. Developed specifically for performance-critical environments, the BeeGFS parallel file system ...

(See “PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters” at PVFS's web site in Resources.) PVFS Advantages. PVFS is easy to install and configure. It comes with an installation guide that walks ...

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

On the other hand, a distributed parallel file system (Fig. 2) spreads file segments across storage nodes, which allows for parallel input-output to individual files, also called “striping.” Both ...

Journaling is a widely used technique to increase file system robustness against metadata and/or data corruptions. While the overhead of journaling can be masked by the page cache for small-scale ...

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 ...

ZFS is not a parallel file system, however, as it depends on NFS for its base file system capability. That will change when pNFS is ready, which is likely in the next year or so.