Someone ought to gift these IBM researchers a better camera, because their latest General Parallel File System is a back-slapping 37 times faster than their last effort back in 2007. The rig combines ...

IBM has revealed details of a new storage architecture that promises to speed up the processing of business analytics in large datacentres and cloud environments. The company spoke about its General ...

This document describes a demonstration that shows GPFS taking 43 minutes to process the 6.5 TBs of metadata needed for a file system containing 10 Billion files. This accomplishment combines the use ...

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 ...

The world of big data is expanding rapidly. Every day, the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. In fact, 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched a petabyte-scale scale-out NAS bundle, the GS7K, aimed at big data analytics use cases. The GS7K is preconfigured with the IBM-developed General Parallel File ...

Linux Networx announced last week that it had signed an OEM agreement with IBM to distribute IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS). The agreement between IBM and Linux Networx is the first for IBM ...

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 ...

In an IBM blog labeled "Keep Your Friends Close and Your Data Closer" by Matthew Drahzal, a leader in IBM's Systems & Technology Group (STG), has announced a new storage server for bring ...

As business users increasingly turn to high-performance hardware, IBM is adding features to its high-performance file systems to help push supercomputing more into the mainstream. IBM on Friday plans ...