TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem | XTX Tech Blog

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani.

A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: #TernFS https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source

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A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system

🌘 大型交易公司開源最新 Linux 檔案系統:TernFS
➤ XTX Markets 釋出 TernFS,革新金融數據儲存架構
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source
知名演算法交易公司 XTX Markets 已將其自行開發的 Linux 分散式檔案系統 TernFS 開源。TernFS 專為處理大量不可變檔案而設計,能支援高達 10 EB 的儲存空間、一兆個檔案及百億個目錄,並橫跨多個地理區域,確保無單點故障。該檔案系統已用於 XTX 的機器學習專案超過一年,且迄今未遺失任何資料,其原始碼現已在 GitHub 上以 GPLv2+ 和 Apache 2.0 授權條款釋出。
+ 太棒了!金融業的公司開始回饋開源社羣,這對整個生態系都是好事。
+ 能看到像 TernFS 這樣專為大規模、效能嚴苛需求打造的檔案系統開源,真是令人振奮。希望它能普及。
#Linux #檔案系統 #開源 #TernFS #XTX Markets
A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system

See also #TernFS 's software repository, open source:
https://github.com/XTXMarkets/ternfs
GitHub - XTXMarkets/ternfs: An exabyte-scale, multi-region distributed file system

An exabyte-scale, multi-region distributed file system - XTXMarkets/ternfs

GitHub

If neuroscience ever delivers a volume of the human brain in sufficient resolution to map its connectome, the file system to store it will be like #TernFS :
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/

Immutable, redundant, with structural sharing, snapshots, and distributed. In other words built from the ground up for concurrent reading and writing.
#connectomics

TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem | XTX Tech Blog

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani.

This riveting tale of #TernFS is like reading a #love #letter to #storage with a wild imagination 🤯. From humble desktops to a glorified space opera of GPUs and CPUs, they somehow metamorphosed a power struggle into a filesystem that could probably store your bad life choices 📂🚀. Who knew filing could be so... thrilling? 😂
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/ #SpaceOpera #ThrillingFilesystem #BadLifeChoices #HackerNews #ngated
TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem | XTX Tech Blog

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani.

TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem | XTX Tech Blog

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani.