Fainting is loss of consciousness caused by a temporary lack of oxygen to the brain. Known by the medical term syncope, fainting may be preceded by dizziness, nausea, or a feeling of extreme weakness.
GPFS is a commercial IBM closed source product that can provide a high performance, high available, and global filename space to your cluster. For more information on GPFS read the GPFS Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide Version 1.2.
GPFS also enables a large system to keep track of its many files without laboriously scanning through every one. Last month a team from IBM used GPFS to index 10 billion files in 43 minutes, effortlessly breaking the previous record of one billion files scanned in three hours.