InternetNews.com: Showing a convergence between open source and mainstream enterprise technology, HP unveiled a new file system that uses the company's hardware and Linux to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than traditional clusters.

The HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), which includes the company's ProLiant servers and StorageWorks disk arrays, allows bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters of servers and storage devices. The system was designed to bust bandwidth constraints in high-performance computing environments.

Simon Towers, a technical director in the office of the CTO at HP, said the system is based on HP's "storage grid" architecture, allowing applications to see a single file system image regardless of the number of servers or storage devices connected to it.

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