Google File System (GFS) Paper Published

Google engineers Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung published a paper detailing GFS, Google's scalable distributed file system.

Significance

GFS laid the groundwork for how Google managed its massive data infrastructure internally, a conceptual precursor to cloud storage solutions.

Key facts

Date
2003-10-01
Type
invention
Location
SOSP '03, Lake George, NY, USA