Why File System Speed Matters More Than Ever in AI

Today’s AI applications are fundamentally different from traditional software. They’re data-hungry, parallel by design, and performance-sensitive in ways that expose every weakness in conventional storage systems. Enter flexFS, the high performance file system for AI.

flexFS – Supercharged Cloud File System

flexFS throughput scales indefinitely as cluster size grows, but both EFS and FSx for Lustre hit a performance ceiling. FSx for Lustre throughput can be increased, but only by increasing capacity – and cost.

Cryo-EM Analysis Benchmarking: flexFS vs Lustre vs EFS

Scale your science, not your spend. We benchmarked cryo-EM analysis using flexFS against FSx for Lustre and EFS. Results show that Lustre costs 3.5x flexFS and is 21% slower for end-to-end performance. EFS costs at least 1.75x flexFS and is 29% slower for end-to-end performance. We also found that flexFS is faster at each step […]