A parallel file system is a software component designed to store data across multiple networked servers. It facilitates high-performance access through simultaneous, coordinated input/output (I/O) ...

Dell Technologies will soon become a parallel file system provider to support AI workloads, but doing so could help push the vendor into new markets or into a more specific storage role. In May at ...

Many have tried, but few parallel file system upstarts have challenge the dominance of Lustre, and to a lesser extent these days, GPFS/Spectrum Scale. It does not seem to be just a matter of open ...

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 ...

As AI and HPC workloads drive unprecedented demands on data infrastructure, the concept of the “parallel file system” (PFS) has re-emerged as a critical architectural foundation. However, it remains ...

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 ...

Unveils the Performance Production Customers are Achieving, Reaching Over 90 Percent Maximum Theoretical Performance of Any Infrastructure When Creating, Processing, and Moving Data in the Hammerspace ...

Hammerspace unveiled its new high-performance NAS architecture, Hyperscale NAS, to cater to the growing demands of enterprise AI, machine learning, deep learning initiatives, and the increasing use of ...

Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is now offering support for IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), a cluster file ...

Network-attached storage (NAS), or file storage, provides shared storage in which access to data takes place at the level of entire files. NAS is defined by the fact it runs a file system and manages ...

Enterprises constantly struggle to stay ahead of a growing need for data storage, especially of unstructured data. Scale-out NAS systems are an increasingly important tool in this battle. By using a ...