As the number of high-speed processors that can be packed into a server continues to increase, many IT organizations are about to confront some significant I/O challenges. Each of those processors is ...

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 ...

Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and its latest ...

DeepSeek has released the Fire-Flyer File System (3FS), an open source project that is a parallel file system that improves the efficiency of AI training and inference performance. DeepSeek brings ...

Parallel file systems running on high-speed networks are the foundational infrastructure for quick access to these datasets.

Since he left Fusion-io eight years ago, David Flynn has been working to solve the broken relationship between data and storage. That effort gave rise to Hammerspace and its Global Data Environment, ...

Big-data platform provider WekaIO Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $135 million late-stage funding round led by Generation Investment Management, doubling its valuation in the process. A host ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

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, ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

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 ...