Google File System (GFS) Paper Publication

Name: Google File System (GFS) Paper Publication
Start: 2003-10-01
Location: Lake Placid, New York (SOSP)

Google publishes its paper on the Google File System (GFS) at the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). GFS provided the distributed storage layer essential for MapReduce's operation.

Significance

GFS demonstrated how to build a fault-tolerant, scalable file system using commodity hardware, directly laying the groundwork for MapReduce by solving the distributed storage problem first.

Key facts

Date: 2003-10-01
Type: publication
Location: Lake Placid, New York (SOSP)