The precise point of departure in the history of almost anything of significance – of a country, a company or a technology – is usually imperceptible. A new chapter in the continually evolving HPC ...

If this particular segment of the computer age could be named, it might well be called “the age of multi-media.” We’ve long gone past the time of simple text files which might contain mostly text and ...

To most computer users, saving a Microsoft Word file to disk or copying a file to a USB drive is as close as they will get to seeing I/O in action, but the needs and requirements in a High Performance ...

Bacula Systems, the global leader in high-security, high-performance backup and recovery solutions, today announced native integration with IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), bringing powerful new ...

HFS uses trees to store its filesystem data so it should handle this properly - I haven't noticed any degradation despite having hundreds of thousands of files on my laptop partitions and millions on ...

What makes a “fast computer” fast? Some will say it takes a high-speed CPU and RAM. However, while both of these contribute to the overall speed of workstations and servers, by far the most important ...

Linux kernel version 2.6.30 has been released, adding support for new file systems, performance improvements, and new hardware drivers. The Linux kernel is the core used by GNU/Linux operating system ...

Microsoft's exFAT file system is again getting a huge performance boost on Linux. And once more, Sony is at the forefront. More than a decade ago, in 2012, Microsoft released its 64-bit exFAT ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...