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What is GPFS?

IBM Spectrum Scale, formerly known as GPFS (General Parallel File System), is a high-performance, clustered file system designed for managing large amounts of data across multiple nodes in a distributed environment. It provides concurrent access to files from multiple nodes, enabling high throughput and scalability. It is commonly used in high-performance computing (HPC), big data analytics, and enterprise storage solutions where large datasets and parallel processing are required.

What other technologies are related to GPFS?

GPFS Competitor Technologies

Lustre is a parallel file system, directly competing with GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) in the high-performance computing (HPC) market.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 52% (1.7k) of relevant job posts
BeeGFS is another parallel file system that competes with GPFS in providing high-performance storage solutions.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 50% (281) of relevant job posts
XFS is a high-performance journaling file system that, while not directly a parallel file system in the same way as GPFS, can be an alternative for some high-performance storage needs.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 31% (298) of relevant job posts
CXFS was a clustered file system from SGI and competed with GPFS in the high-performance computing market.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 97% (65) of relevant job posts
WekaIO is a parallel file system that competes with GPFS in providing high-performance storage solutions, especially for AI and data-intensive workloads.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 81% (58) of relevant job posts
Gluster is a distributed file system that could be used as alternative to GPFS.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 18% (115) of relevant job posts
DDN is a storage vendor with its own parallel file system solutions that compete with GPFS.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 30% (69) of relevant job posts
NFS and CIFS are general purpose network file systems that could be used as alternative to GPFS for some workloads.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 34% (60) of relevant job posts

GPFS Complementary Technologies

Slurm is a workload manager often used in conjunction with parallel file systems like GPFS to manage and schedule jobs that utilize the storage.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 13% (1.1k) of relevant job posts
InfiniBand is a high-speed network interconnect commonly used with GPFS to provide the necessary bandwidth for parallel file system operations.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 16% (852) of relevant job posts
LSF is a workload management platform that, similarly to Slurm, can be used with GPFS to schedule and manage jobs accessing the file system.
mentioned alongside GPFS in 18% (420) of relevant job posts

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