Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability. By orchestrating multiple ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

When it comes to parallel file systems, few people understand the evolution of challenges better than Sven Oehme, who was part of the original team at IBM building GPFS. Following almost a quarter ...

Compared with mainstream enterprise applications, compute-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) places very different demands on storage systems, so it’s not surprising a number of vendors have ...