https://insinuator.net/tags/gpfs/ Recent content in GPFS on Insinuator.net - Bold Statements Hugo en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://insinuator.net/2015/04/general-pr0ken-filesystem-hacking-ibms-gpfs/ Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://insinuator.net/2015/04/general-pr0ken-filesystem-hacking-ibms-gpfs/ <p><em>This post is a short wrap-up of our Troopers talk about the research we did on IBM’s General Parallel File System. If you are interested in all the technical details take a look at our <a href="https://www.troopers.de/media/filer_public/69/81/69812750-49b0-4631-a3e6-fb402c88adf3/fwfggpfs_troopers15.pdf" title="slides">slides</a> or the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmWMEdA-3Qs">video recording</a>. We will also give an updated version of this talk at the <a href="http://www.phdays.com/">PHDays</a> conference in Moscow next month.</em></p> <p>The IBM General Parallel File System is a distributed file system used in large scale enterprise environments, high performance clusters as well as some of the worlds largest super computers. It is considered by many in the industry to be the most feature rich and production hardened distributed file system currently available. GPFS has a long and really interesting history, going back to the Tiger Shark file system created by IBM 1993.</p>