Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Fay Chang published the architecture of the Google File System (GFS). This breakthrough distributed file system allowed massive datasets to be split, replicated, and processed across thousands of cheap, commodity server machines, providing the physical storage foundation for modern Big Data and massive AI model training.
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