Few weeks ago I was invited to present the state of the pNFS to the Purdue University. They are interested to be one of the early adopters and I jumped on that opportunity to promote pNFS. The presentation included the deep dive in the protocol and the need for scalability and I continued with the current state of the protocol and the initial client implementations in Linux and Open Solaris.

The presentation and the discussion that followed addressed some basic questions that I expected around why should users trust that NFSv4.1/pNFS will not have the same faith as NFSv4.0. This … Read the rest

Last week I attended the annual Massive Storage System Technologies 2010 Symposium in Tahoe. Most of the audience was from the National Labs, NASA, and Supercomputing centers. The discussions were mostly focused on the next exascale generation of storage and I was invited to present the pNFS as one of the major future technologies that will address the scalability issues related to the high I/O throughput requirements of HPC and SC. My presentation was very well received and many participants were not new to the pNFS and NFSv4.1. During the discussions after the presentation I asked the audience if anybody … Read the rest