Grand Unified File Index

GUFI DOCUMENTATION

Grand Unified File Index (GUFI) Master Document. Gary Grider, et al. Version 15, June 2026.
GUFI: Fast, Secure File System Metadata Search for Both Privileged and Unprivileged Users. Dominic Manno, Jason Lee, Prajwal Challa, Qing Zheng, David Bonnie, Gary Grider, Bradley Settlemyer. SC '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 13-18, 2022. Dallas, TX.

GUFI quick start guide
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Guidance on GUFI's SQL schema, functions, and usage
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GUFI Presidio Demo - Dealing with PII in Files with Sufi. Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory. June 2026.
GUFI Overview: A Global Metabase, Not a Lakehouse, Part 1. Amanda Bonnie, Brian Atkinson, Gary Grider. LA-UR-26-24739, May 2026.
GUFI Overview: A Global Metabase, Not a Lakehouse, Part 2. Amanda Bonnie, Brian Atkinson, Gary Grider. LA-UR-26-24739, May 2026.
Domino Labs GUFI: Materials Discovery Challenge. May 2026.
GUFI Base Metadata Plus Text Vault Extract Samples.. Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory. May 2026.
GUFI Used as a Rag Samples. Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory. May 2026.
GUFI Vault Samples. Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory. May 2026.
GUFI Vault Rag Sample. Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory. May 2026.

How Incremental Update Works: Parking Lot Method and Grand Vision. Gary Grider, Jason Lee. LA-UR-26-25065. June 2026.
Access Controlled AI Context with GUFI. Jason Lee, Gary Grider. LA-UR-26-24286. June 1, 2026.
Large Scale File/Storage System Indexing with GUFI. Jason Lee, Dominic Manno, Gary Grider. LA-UR-23-24629. May 22, 2023.
Grand Unified File Index (GUFI). Jason Lee, HPC-DES Storage Team. LA-UR-22-26715. July 21, 2022.