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GPFS · General Parallel File System

IBM's mature parallel file system, shipped as Storage Scale, notable for distributing metadata across nodes rather than through a single metadata server and for broad multiprotocol support.

Also written as: IBM Storage Scale

Current numbers

~41% / ~17% / ~6%parallel-FS deployment share: Lustre / IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) / WekaFS in HPC surveysas of 2025 · register ↗

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