IBM Platform Computing Solutions for High Performance and Technical Computing Workloads

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IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS)

This chapter focuses on IBM Spectrum Scale (Spectrum Scale) for use specifically with the IBM Platform Computing stack. For more information about Spectrum Scale, see IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS), SG24-8254.

This chapter covers the following topics:

•IBM Spectrum Scale overview

•Spectrum Scale for technical computing

•Spectrum Scale for big data

•Installing IBM Spectrum Scale

4.1 IBM Spectrum Scale overview

Spectrum Scale is a fully parallel software-defined storage that can manage data, objects, and files ...

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