IBM General Parallel File System

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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
- Romanian National Grid leverages GPFS
- Katana Animation Studio accelerates development using GPFS
- The University of Bonn boosts genetic research with GPFS
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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.
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.
