GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters

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GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters (2002)

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by Frank Schmuck , Roger Haskin

Venue:	In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST
Citations:	521 - 3 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Schmuck02gpfs:a,
    author = {Frank Schmuck and Roger Haskin},
    title = {GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters},
    booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST},
    year = {2002},
    pages = {231--244}
}

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GPFS is IBM's parallel, shared-disk file system for cluster computers, available on the RS/6000 SP parallel supercomputer and on Linux clusters. GPFS is used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world. GPFS was built on many of the ideas that were developed in the academic community over the last several years, particularly distributed locking and recovery technology. To date it has been a matter of conjecture how well these ideas scale. We have had the opportunity to test those limits in the context of a product that runs on the largest systems in existence. While in many cases existing ideas scaled well, new approaches were necessary in many key areas. This paper describes GPFS, and discusses how distributed locking and recovery techniques were extended to scale to large clusters.

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