Showing a convergence between open source and mainstream enterprise technology, HP unveiled a new file system that uses the company’s hardware and Linux to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than traditional clusters.

The HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), which includes the company’s ProLiant servers and StorageWorks disk arrays, allows bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters of servers and storage devices. The system was designed to bust bandwidth constraints in high-performance computing environments.

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