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RSS gpfsAn Introduction to GPFS v1.3 for Linux
White Paper The IBM General Parallel File System for Linux (GPFS) is a UNIX operating file system designed for clusters of IBM eServer xSeries machines. This paper provides a review of operating environments, a discussion of GPFS configuration, and a... [03 Jul 2008]
The Next Step Forward in Storage Virtualization: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) Come Together
White Paper IBM has integrated key features of IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) into IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS). The goal of this paper is to introduce GPFS, at a high level, and to compare GPFS functionality and architecture to SFS by... [21 Apr 2007]
Shared Parallel Filesystems in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environments
White Paper Specifically, it deploys PVFS2, GPFS, Lustre, and TerraFS in the test environment containing Intel Xeon, Intel x86-64, and IBM PPC970 systems. Three of the systems - GPFS, Lustre and TerraFS - depend on specific kernel versions that increase... [01 Apr 2007]
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Eliminates Costly Downtime With Grid Solution
White Paper The solution to this was gained by eliminated downtime with a high availability solution based on Oracle Real Application Clusters in combination with HACMP and GPFS from IBM. Founded in 1919 in the Netherlands, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is one of... [27 Feb 2007]
GPFS Multicluster With the IBM System Blue Gene Solution and eHPS Clusters
White Paper This paper describes a case study in which an IBM System Blue Gene Solution supercomputer is configured to natively access General Parallel File System (GPFS) 2.3 file systems that are owned by an IBM eServer pSeries cluster with AIX 5L and the... [21 Feb 2007]
Oracle 10g RAC Deployment on AIX Using VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
White Paper VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Real Application Clusters (SFRAC) provides an integrated solution stack for using clustered filesystems with Oracle RAC on AIX, as an alternative to using raw logical volumes, Automatic Storage Management (ASM... [18 Feb 2007]
Sequential I/O Performance of GPFS on HS20 Blades and IBM System Storage DS4800
White Paper The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the sequential I/O capability of General Parallel File System (GPFS) for Linux on HS20 blades inside the IBM BladeCenter blade server with the System Storage DS4800 storage subsystem using a 4 Gbps... [08 Feb 2007]
Using Tiebreaker Disks With GPFS V2.3 and AIX 5L
White Paper This paper addresses technically oriented readers having experience with GPFS clusters based on AIX 5L. The GPFS V2.3 product documentation briefly covers the setup and installation of a two node cluster using tiebreaker disks with file system data... [08 Feb 2007]
An Introduction to GPFS
White Paper This paper provides an overview of IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Version 3, Release 1 for AIX 5L and Linux. This paper covers core GPFS concepts including the high-performance file system, direct Storage Area Network (SAN) access, network... [30 Aug 2006]
UID Mapping for GPFS in a Multi-Cluster Environment
White Paper This paper describes a solution to the problem of handling user and group IDs in GPFS in a multi-cluster environment. Rather than implementing and deploying a separate, GPFS-specific, global infrastructure for managing user IDs, names, and accounts... [03 Jan 2006]
A GPFS Primer
White Paper This paper describes GPFS (General Parallel File System) Version 2, Release 3 for AIX 5L and Linux. GPFS is a cluster file system providing normal application interfaces, and has been available on AIX operating system-based clusters since 1998 and... [28 Nov 2005]
DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Over IBM GPFS V2.1
White Paper This paper documents IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition Version 8.1 (UDB ESE V8.1) or an IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition + Data Partition Feature Version 8.1 (UDB ESE+DPF V8.1) using an IBM General Parallel... [08 Nov 2005]
GPFS Sequential Input/Output Performance on IBM pSeries 690
White Paper The paper provides GPFS configuration details and discusses GPFS options for attaining the best performance. This paper discusses the capabilities of the newest IBM pSeries 690 processor and its I/O subsystem. [27 Sep 2005]
Native GPFS Benchmarks in an Integrated p690/AIX and x335/Linux Environment
White Paper The primary goal of these tests was to evaluate GPFS performance for HPC applications in a mixed p690/AIX and x335/Linux environment. A secondary goal was to assess how well GPFS scales by adding additional storage controllers. [27 Sep 2005]
Oracle 9i RAC Deployment on AIX Using VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 4.0 as Clusterware
White Paper VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Real Application Clusters (SFRAC) provides an enabling clusterware on which to run Oracle RAC on AIX, as an alternative to HACMP or GPFS. The first section of this paper covers the SFRAC requirements and... [14 Jan 2005]
