Researchers at IBM have succeeded in 43 minutes the gpfs metadata of 10 billion files to read from, among others, by the metadata on flash memory. The previous record by a factor of 37 is broken.
The record was achieved with a cluster of ten IBM xSeries servers each with a dual-quadcore-cpu and 32GB of memory; the metadata were placed on four solid-state arrays from Violin Memory. The data were in total 6.5 terabytes large. The Violin arrays were all pci-express to two IBM servers linked, which in turn via infiniband through a 24 ports switch SilverStorm were knotted.
The broken record were the data on a disk is placed; also by the metadata on flash memory was this record achieved. In addition, the gpfs-algorithms since 2007 improved.