GPFS is advanced Protocol similar to HDFS and exist in market since 1993 and thousand of compnaies are using like Energy sector, Social Media, Analytics  industries and finance.

It primarily focus on following items.

1. High performance

1. Availability

1. Advance replication

1. Multi site caching

1. Reliability

1. Fault tolerance.

VESTAS Wind System is one of the very use for GPFS they using for more than decades.

* Wind pattern information system they have created for Clients that gives good analytic system of Wind information all around the world.

* GPFS is very suitable for situation where NFS and many legacy protocol can not work and terabytes of data need to be available for analytic system on demand.

References

http://www.ibm.com/platformcomputing

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/software/gpfs/