ABSTRACT

pNFS and Linux: Working towards a Heterogeneous Future
Dean Hildebrand, Peter Honeyman, and W.A. (Andy) Adamson
Proc. 8th LCI International Conf. on High-Performance Clustered Computing, South Lake Tahoe. May 2007.

Anticipating terascale and petascale HPC demands, NFSv4 architects are designing pNFS, a standard extension that provides direct storage access to high-performance file systems while preserving operating system and hardware platform independence. Researchers at the University of Michigan are collaborating with industry to develop pNFS for the Linux operating system. This paper discusses the progress and direction of Linux pNFS.