Hammerspace – Standards-based Parallel File System Architecture based upon pNFS 4.2 with FlexFiles

Parallel Performance with Standards-based Access:

At the core of Hammerspace architecture and as a key capability to bring to extreme high-performance data environments is Parallel Network File System (pNFS) 4.2 with Flexible Files (Flex Files), which is part of the NFS 4.2 specification.

Much of pNFS 4.2 spec and in particular the innovation of Flex Files originated from developers at Hammerspace, and is now included in standard Linux distributions. Trond Myklebust, the Hammerspace CTO, has also been the Linux NFS Kernel maintainer for more than 20 years.

pNFS 4.2 with Flex Files introduces a high performance parallel file system architecture that is standards-based, and does not require proprietary client software. pNFS 4.2 with Flex Files is in the NFS 4.2 spec which means it is already in place on any Linux server or Linux-based storage.

With the wide adoption of NFS as an industry standard for network file sharing, this integration ensures seamless compatibility of high-performance parallel workloads with standard NFS file access.