Abstract: This paper provides an overview of existing distributed file systems, discussing their advantages and limitations in the context of modern environments such as distributed computing systems.

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has seen firsthand how big traffic spikes can trip up even top tech companies. They use distributed systems, ...

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

DeepSeek AI recently released its Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) as open source, presenting a distributed storage solution specifically engineered for the high-throughput, low-latency demands of ...

What just happened? In response to Western organizations calling it "shady and untrustworthy," DeepSeek launched "Open Source Week." During last week's event, the company released several repositories ...

The advancement of artificial intelligence has ushered in an era where data volumes and computational requirements are growing at an impressive pace. AI training and inference workloads demand not ...

How event-driven design can overcome the challenges of coordinating multiple AI agents to create scalable and efficient reasoning systems. While large language models are useful for chatbots, Q&A ...

Abstract: Throughput and latency are the two important performance indicators for distributed file systems. Google has achieved a great success with Google File System (GFS) when operating big files, ...

Striping is a technique that distributes file content over multiple storage servers and thereby enables parallel access. In order to be able to provide a consistent view across file data and metadata ...