The IO500 is a less well known but very useful HPC benchmark with innovative applications.

The Lustre open source distributed, parallel filesystem scales to high-performance computing environments.

Why splat a compressed archive in your storage when you can just mount it like a storage device?

If you are an intensive, or even a typical, computer user, you store an amazing amount of data on your personal systems, servers, and HPC systems that you rarely touch. SquashFS is an underestimated filesystem that can address that needed, but little used, data.

Btrfs is winning over the experts with advanced features like subvolumes, snapshots, and dynamic volume resizing. Read full article as PDF »