General Parallel File System

Scalable, highly-available, high performance file system optimized for multi-petabyte storage management

Community

Learn, discover, and share information on the IBM GPFS wiki:

• GPFS wiki

Discuss technical GPFS issues in the GPFS forum

• GPFS forum

Keep up with the latest GPFS product announcements

• GPFS announce forum

Download the latest GPFS patches for all platforms

• Support and downloads

Education

A comprehensive portfolio of technical training and education services for IBM GPFS.

• GPFS System Administration
• GPFS Performance Tuning

E-Learning

• Are filer hotspots an issue in your environment?

Case studies

• Romanian National Grid leverages GPFS
• Katana Animation Studio accelerates development using GPFS
• The University of Bonn boosts genetic research with GPFS
• More GPFS case studies

Brochures and white papers

• UID Mapping for GPFS in a Multi-cluster Environment (3.09KB)
• Introduction to GPFS 3.5 (948KB)
• Configure GPFS for Reliability (785KB)
• Intelligent Storage Management with IBM GPFSTM (714KB)

Technical documents

• GPFS documentation
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Redbooks