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Will DeltaFS Become the File System of Exascale’s Future?

July 14, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Many have tried, but few parallel file system upstarts have challenge the dominance of Lustre, and to a lesser extent these days, GPFS/Spectrum Scale. …

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ARM, Open Source Feed Buzz Around HPC File System

February 24, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

There is but a small cadre of scalable parallel file systems and while the list might be small, weighing the relative benefits of each option against the available resources can be a challenge, as Sven Breuner and his HPC admin colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute realized in 2004. …

Enterprise

What Stands in the Way of Enterprise Lustre Adoption?

March 3, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

As we described in detail in the previous section of this series on the state of Lustre and the roadmap for the parallel file system, beyond traditional HPC, the file system has some weaknesses for large-scale enterprise shops. …

Compute

DNA Sequencing: Not Quite HPC Yet

March 3, 2015 Glenn Lockwood 4

DNA sequencing has been driving unprecedented discoveries in the life sciences since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies ten years ago. …

Enterprise

Tracing the Enterprise Path for Lustre

March 2, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

While it is generally considered stable and reliable in large-scale environments, Lustre is not without a few key weaknesses, which the small vendor community supporting it are often first to point out. …

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