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- IBM releases latest version of its parallel file system
- IBM has announced that it will begin shipping version 3.2 of its General Parallel File System GPFS software on October 5, 2007. GPFS enables high-end technical and high performance computing, and it is able to scale to multi-petabytes or thousands of nodes accessing a single file system. ...
- Tags: File System, IBM Corp., General Parallel File System, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Over IBM GPFS V2.1
- 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 File System GPFS as data storage. GPFS has always been a supported...
- Tags: IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., General Parallel File System, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2004-07-05
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- The Next Step Forward in Storage Virtualization: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) Come Together
- IBM has taken the next step in storage virtualization by merging the best in file system performance, scalability and flexibility. 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...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, File System, SAN, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Smooth and Efficient Integration of High-Availability in a Parallel Single Level Store System
- A Parallel Single Level Store PSLS system integrates a shared virtual memory and a parallel file system thus providing programmers with a global address space including both memory and file data. Thus, a PSLS represents an attractive support for long running parallel applications in a cluster. This paper presents the...
- Tags: File System, High-availability, Integration, Parallel Single Level Store System
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- IBM Scale Out File Services: Reinventing Network-Attached Storage
- This paper focuses on the challenges of creating a scalable Network-Attached Storage NAS filer with hundreds of nodes on top of the IBM General Parallel File System GPFS. The filer is created as a multiheaded data exporter over Ethernet and uses the Common Internet File System CIFS as implemented by...
- Tags: NAS, IBM Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-07-01
- A Multi-Level WEB Based Parallel Processing System: A Hierarchical Volunteer Computing Approach
- Over the past few years, a number of efforts have been exerted to build parallel processing systems that utilize the idle power of LAN's and PC's available in many homes and corporations. The main advantage of these approaches is that they provide cheap parallel processing environments for those who cannot...
- Tags: Parallel Processing, Computing
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Efficiency of Distributed Parallel Processing Using Java RMI, Sockets, and CORBA
- Software development is proceeding at a remarkable rate. Many new tools are available to the researcher in parallel and distributed processing. These tools include PVM, MPI, and Java. But, recently, a more general tool, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, CORBA has appeared. Since it allows a general view of remote...
- Tags: Parallel Processing, Java RMI, Corba, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2007-12-01
- GridFTP and Parallel TCP Support in NaradaBrokering
- Many of the key features of file transfer mechanisms like reliable file transfers and parallel transfers are developed as part of the original system. This makes it makes very hard to re-use the same code for different systems. This disadvantage is addressed by decoupling useful features of file transfer mechanisms...
- Tags: TCP, Messaging, Indiana University, Feature, Tcp/Ip, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-03-12
- HW-SW Framework for Distributed Parallel Computing on Programmable Chips
- This paper addresses a new hardware/software Multi Processor System-on-a-Chip MPSoC co-design methodology to map PVM/MPI parallel software framework to a developed multiprocessor architecture for distributed parallel computing on a chip. This methodology is composed of two concurrent phases. The first one is the software development of the embedded parallel framework...
- Tags: Software, Multiprocessor, Computing, Chip, Tools & Techniques, Processors, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-11-02
- A GPFS Primer
- 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...
- Tags: IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, GPFS, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software
- White papers 2005-10-01
- parallel connection
- My D400 Dell Latitude is so small Dell didn't configure a parallel port, so I can't hook to many non-USB printers. I have a serial port. How can I bridge from serial or USB to parallel?More and more computers are going to be configured without "legacy" ports and...
- Tags: Printers, USB-to-parallel, printer
- Q&A 2004-11-19
- parallel install uninstall
- A year or so ago i had to install a parallel version of XP due to corrupt files. The installation was successful, the recovery was successful, and I merrily went on my computing way, happy that I recovered my system. Now that I'm housecleaning my pc, I see...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP
- Q&A 2004-11-05
- Sequential I/O Performance of GPFS on HS20 Blades and IBM System Storage DS4800
- 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 Fibre Channel interconnect. The paper shows that the GPFS file...
- Tags: I/O, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-01
- An Introduction to GPFS
- This paper provides an overview of IBM General Parallel File System GPFS Version 3, Release 1 for AIX 5L and Linux. It includes concepts key to understanding, at a high level, available features and functionality. This paper covers core GPFS concepts including the high-performance file system, direct Storage Area Network...
- Tags: High-performance, IBM Corp., Leadership, Linux, Operating Systems, Management, Software
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Full Circle: Simulating Linux Clusters on Linux Clusters
- BGLsim is a complete system simulator for parallel machines. It is currently being used in hardware validation and software development for the BlueGene/L cellular architecture machine. BGLsim is capable of functionally simulating multiple nodes of this machine operating in parallel. It simulates instruction execution in each node and the communication...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, Hardware, Linux Cluster, BGLsim, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
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- Parallel to USB
- I used the ACK signal on the parallel port to count pulses. Because some new laptops do not have parallel ports, I would like to switch to USB. I've considered using a serial communications device & driver.Is this a good idea? If so, is there a similar...
- Tags: hardware, interrupts, meltemii@..., parallel, programming, serial, software, USB
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- General-Purpose Blade Infrastructure for Configurable System Architectures
- Bladed servers are increasingly being adopted in high-density enterprise datacenters by virtue of the improved benefits they offer in form factor density, modularity, and more robust management for control and maintenance with respect to rack-optimized servers. In the future, such servers are likely to form the key foundational blocks for...
- Tags: System Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-21
- GPFS Multicluster With the IBM System Blue Gene Solution and eHPS Clusters
- 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 IBM eServer High Performance Switch eHPS. The IBM...
- Tags: Blue Gene, File System, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-19
- Data Paint (exe)
- The program is designed to allow the user to paint the data in charts and graphs visually and numerically. Painting the data in one graph would automatically be applied to other charts and graphs sharing the same folder. Data can be loaded directly from Excel file or ASCII file. Currently...
- Tags: Density, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2007-07-09
- Exploiting Parallel Operations With Real Application Clusters
- Use of parallel operations with Oracle Database is well known, with the feature first having arrived in version 7.1. The ability to execute SQL statements in parallel on traditional UNIX-based Symmetric MultiProcessor SMP architectures greatly increased utilization of the server and increased the speed of large resource-intensive operations. In Real...
- Tags: Operation, Oracle Corp., Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
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