“At the Supercomputing 2010 conference, IBM pulled back the
curtain on a new storage architecture that, according to Big Blue,
can double analytics processing speed for big data and the
cloud.“Created by scientists at IBM Research – Almaden, the new
General Parallel File System-Shared Nothing Cluster (GPFS-SNC)
architecture was built on the IBM (NYSE: IBM) GPFS and incorporates
the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to provide high
availability through advanced clustering technologies, dynamic file
system management and advanced data replication techniques.“The cluster “shares nothing,” in a distributed computing
architecture in which each node is self-sufficient. The GPFS-SNC
divides tasks between independent nodes and no one waits on the
other.”