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DeepSeek Open Source: 3FS & Smallpond for Effortless PB-Level Data Processing

DeepSeek’s 3FS & Smallpond are revolutionizing AI data processing. With impressive speed, scalability, and performance, these open-source tools handle PB-level data with ease.

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Feb 28, 2025
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DeepSeek Day 5 of Open Source Week: 3FS, Thruster for All DeepSeek ...

DeepSeek’s Open Source Week Concludes with Final Day (Previous Reports from the First Four Days in the "Related Readings" section below)

Today, they have open-sourced a system called 3FS (Fire-Flyer File System).

This is a parallel file system that leverages the full bandwidth of modern solid-state drives (SSDs) and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networks, accelerating and driving all data access operations on the DeepSeek platform.

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