consolidate to gpfs and/or alpine about olcf-user-docs HOT 7 CLOSED

As officially is not GPFS (we just mention it as more people know what is GPFS), we should call it either Spectrum Scale, or Alpine.

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Well, as you say, more people know what GPFS is.

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"Before 2015, Spectrum Scale was known as IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)". Moreover they call the software from version 4 and later Spectrum Scale and before that version, GPFS. So, technically, GPFS is an older version without explanation that we call it GPFS just because people are familiar.

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I understand all of that. Let's discuss in group meeting with everyone.

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consider that "gpfs" is in all of the paths, and so we have to keep it in all of the code snippets and tables.

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Looking through the docs, I don't actually find this to be much of a problem. I can't remember ever seeing end-user confusion on this topic. The relevant paths in code snippets and tables include both "GPFS" and "Alpine" (/gpfs/alpine/...). This makes "Spectrum Scale," which is arguably the most correct name, the one least frequently used in docs and by users/staff.

There are a few places where we could make the tables more consistent. The Type field at these locations could read just "Spectrum Scale" to match the other tables in /data and /accounts:

./data/policies.rst:23
./data/policies.rst:25
./data/policies.rst:27

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d94f718 did a good job of touching up the way we present filesystems in the docs.

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