Boosting Performance and Scalability
with the Next Generation of NFS (pNFS)
Recorded: April 18, 2006
Speakers: Brent Welch, Director of Software Architecture, Panasas
Brent Welch is the Director of Software Architecture at Panasas where he contributes in a broad range of development areas including file system protocol design, cluster management, software architecture, test automation, and performance analysis tools.
Welch received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, where he built the Sprite distributed file system as part of the Sprite Operating System research project.
Today's computing environments often include clusters of tens, hundreds, or thousands of Linux compute nodes that need to share data, creating clusters that easily overwhelm a single file server.
Current solutions have scalability problems or require vendor-specific client modules to achieve the needed scalability and performance requirements.
The pNFS standard aims to provide a scalable, shared file system. Panasas' Webinar examines the pNFS extension to NFSv4, IETF's newest file system standard.
- Learn About pNFS - An extension to the NFSv4 protocol standard
- Examine how pNFS boosts the performance and scalability to the NFS file system standard
- Learn how companies like Panasas, Sun, Network Appliance and EMC are working in the IETF to create the next generation of NFS protocols
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