IBM Demonstrates Big Data Breakthrough

IBM (NYSE: IBM) demonstrated the "record shattering" results of lab research, by successfully scanning 10 billion files on a single system in just 43 minutes.

TMC Net reports this is the future of large-scale storage systems, meeting the demand for dramatically reduced and simplified data management tasks. General Parallel File System ( GPFS ) running on a cluster of 10 eight core systems and solid state storage made this demonstration possible.

 

 

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"’Today's demonstration of GPFS scalability will pave the way for new products that address the challenges of a rapidly growing, multi-zettabyte world,’ said Doug Balog, vice president, storage platforms, IBM. ‘This has the potential to enable much larger data environments to be unified on a single platform and dramatically reduce and simplify data management tasks such as data placement, aging, backup and migration of individual files.’ The previous record was also set by IBM researchers at the Supercomputing 2007 conference in Reno, NV, where they demonstrated the ability to scan one billion files in three hours.”

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