IBM General Parallel File System

Scalable, highly-available, high performance file system optimized for multi-petabyte storage management

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Education

A comprehensive portfolio of technical training and education services for IBM GPFS.

Web-based education - an introduction to the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.1

Case studies

Brochures and white papers

	Smart Storage Management with GPFS (152KB)
	An Introduction to GPFS This paper describes how the proven GPFS file management infrastructure provides a foundation for optimizing the use of your computing resources.
	Implementing a Scalable Information Lifecycle Solution using IBM GPFS This document discusses how the IBM GPFS high-performance file system addresses the issues of managing billions of files by tightly integrating information lifecycle management (ILM) functionality into the file system.
	Sequential I/O Performance of GPFS on HS20 Blades and DS4800 Storage Server This paper documents a study to demonstrate the sequential I/O capability of GPFS for Linux on HS20 blades inside the IBM BladeCenter blade server with the System Storage DS4800 storage subsystem using a 4Gbps Fibre Channel interconnect.
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Technical documents