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A Shared POSIX Filesystem Mounted by Many Machines at Once

Tightly coupled and legacy scientific codes will not be rewritten for object semantics, so the honest curation has to name the third option rather than pretending object storage covers everything. It is also the node that makes the later 'choose the store from the I/O pattern' judgement a real choice with three arms.

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Why Parallel File Systems Scale Throughput Past Single-Node NFS in HPC Storage

A parallel file system is defined by its access method: a client may communicate with many storage nodes simultaneously for a single file, so aggregate throughput scales by adding nodes, whereas a di…