Tue 27 Dec 2005
IBM Opens GPFS File System to Linux
Posted by Sim' under General
Tiger Shark on Linux … cool !
BetaNews: IBM Opens GPFS File System to Linux
Tags:gpfs, ibm, linux, parallel computing, tiger sharkIBM … is expected to announce a new software strategy that will allow supercomputing customers to leverage the power of the General Parallel File System (GPFS) across a mixed-vendor computer cluster for the first time.
First developed by Big Blue in 2001, GPFS is the commercial name for the Tiger Shark file system developed by the company’s Almaden research laboratory. Orginally built for work on large-scale multimedia projects, it was later extended to parallel computing applications.
GPFS supports files of several tens of terabytes and has run at input/output rates of several gigabytes per second, according to IBM whitepapers on the subject.