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 ...

OrangeFS is a user-friendly, parallel file system designed specifically for today and tomorrow’s high performance compute and storage clusters. Its distributed file structure provides outstanding ...

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 ...

PVFS was constructed with two main objectives. The foremost is to provide a platform for further research into parallel file systems on Linux clusters. The second objective is to meet the growing need ...

The network file system (also known as a proxy file system) allows for the sharing of content in directories, drives or entire storage systems that extend across a network. This month we resume the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An open source file system can bring huge scalability, parallel file system capability and advanced features compared to those bundled with commercial operating systems.

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 ...

As data center environments become denser and more distributed, there’s more contention for storage resources than ever. Not every IT environment is going to require access to a parallel file system.