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Scale your file system with Parallel NFS

November 12, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 1 year ago

The Network File System (NFS) is inadequate for the demanding input- and output-intensive applications commonly found in high-performance computing—or, at least it was. The newest revision of the NFS standard includes Parallel NFS (pNFS), a parallelized implementation of file sharing that multiplies transfer rates by orders of magnitude.

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