Category
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High Performance File System
filesystem created for OS/2 operating system
Journaled File System
file system
Andrew File System
file system
Virtual Storage Access Method
IBM disk file storage access method
Installable File System
framework
IBM General Parallel File System
GPFS (General Parallel File System, brand name IBM Storage Scale and previously IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance clustered file system software developed by IBM. It can be deployed in shared-disk or shared-nothing distributed parallel modes, or a combination of these. It is used by many of the world's largest commercial companies, as well as some of the supercomputers on the Top 500 List.
For example, it is the filesystem of the Summit
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which was the #1 fastest supercomputer in the world in the November 2019 Top 500 List. Summit is a 200 Petaflops syst