I recently was involved in some development work for a quasi-parallel filesystem for Microsoft Windows. As a result of that involvement my interest was piqued and I decided to do so research on what the state of research and development is in the field of parallel filesystems designed specifically for Microsoft Windows. First a quick review of what I mean by a parallel file system. There are any number of different types of parallel file systems available. Some allow multiple systems and applications to share common pools of storage as in a clusered filesystem. Some split the data across two
