IBM Storage Scale, perviously Spectrum Scale, formerly GPFS

IBM Storage Scale, previously called IBM Spectrum Scale, previously called GPFS, is a proprietary parallel filesystem, developed originally for handling large multimedia files on a cluster of networked computers.

For some years the School maintained a small (~5TB) GPFS scratch filesystem for researchers. However, the free-to-use version could not be used on SL7 at the time (it's no longer possible to obtain driver support) so we discontinued the service.

If you are interested in using IBM Storage Scale, and you have very deep pockets, then please let us know.

• ⇒ The Computing Support form.

IBM and Wikipedia have more information:

• ⇒ IBM Storage Scale (ibm.com).
• ⇒ GPFS (wikipedia.org).
• ⇒ Storage Scale FAQ: Supported OS and software versions (ibm.com).