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- | GPFS is a concurrent file system. It is a product of IBM and is short for General Parallel File System. It is a high-performance shared-disk file system that can provide fast data access from all nodes in a homogenous or heterogenous cluster of IBM UNIX servers running either the AIX or the Linux operating system. | + | GPFS is a concurrent file system. It is a product of IBM and is short for General Parallel File System (new name is Spectrum Scale). It is a high-performance shared-disk file system that can provide fast data access from all nodes in a homogenous or heterogenous cluster of IBM UNIX servers running either the AIX or the Linux operating system, now Windows is also supported. |
All nodes in a GPFS cluster have the same GPFS journaled filesystem mounted, allowing multiple nodes to be active at the same time on the same data. | All nodes in a GPFS cluster have the same GPFS journaled filesystem mounted, allowing multiple nodes to be active at the same time on the same data. |