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A GPFS Primer

Overview This paper describes GPFS (General Parallel File System) Version 2, Release 3 for AIX 5L and Linux. It provides an overview of key concepts which should be understood by those considering the product. GPFS is a cluster file system providing normal application interfaces, and has been available on AIX operating system-based clusters since 1998 and Linux operating system-based clusters since 2001. GPFS distinguishes itself from other cluster file systems by providing concurrent, high-speed file access to applications executing on multiple nodes in an AIX 5L cluster, a Linux cluster or a heterogeneous cluster of AIX 5L and Linux machines.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2005	Downloads	25
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