Community

Learn, discover, and share information on the IBM GPFS wiki:

• GPFS wiki

Discuss technical GPFS issues in the GPFS forum

• GPFS forum

Keep up with the latest GPFS product announcements

• GPFS announce forum

Download the latest GPFS patches for all platforms

• Support and downloads

Education

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

• GPFS System Administration
• GPFS Performance Tuning

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

• Watch the Flash video
• Non-Flash version
• Get Adobe® Flash® Player

Case studies

• Romanian National Grid leverages GPFS
• Katana Animation Studio accelerates development using GPFS
• The University of Bonn boosts genetic research with GPFS
• More GPFS case studies

Brochures and white papers

• Intelligent Storage Management with IBM GPFSTM (807.1KB)
• 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.

Technical documents

• GPFS documentation
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Redbooks