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IBM's High Performance File System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-who-will-use-it dept.

HoosierPeschke writes "BetaNews is running a story about IBM's new file system, General Parallel File System (GPFS). The short and skinny is that the new file system attained a 102 Gigabyte per second transfer rate. The size of the file system is also astonishing at 1.6 petabytes (petabyte == 1,024 terabytes). IBM has up a page with more information and specs on the system.."

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  1. You can have mine by LunaticTippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's only 5mb, but it was plenty for my ST.

    SCSI interface, you might be able to upgrade it to 25.

    I'm not using it anymore...

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    Man, you really need that seminar!