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 ...

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

Huge volumes of data need near-supercomputer power to process and analyze it all. You can get there with the .NET Task Parallel Library. As Web and mobile applications face the challenge of quickly ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

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 ...