GRAND UNIFIED FILE INDEX

Publications

• 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.
  
  

Usage Documentation

• GUFI  quick start guide
  
  
• For more detailed instructions, see the user, administrator, and developer guides
  
  
• Guidance on GUFI's SQL schema, functions, and usage
  
  
• More documentation on the github docs page

Videos

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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.
  
  

Presentations

• Building a Federated DataCatalog: Per-share scanning · GUFI DSI · DeepScan · Federated Query. Hammerspace, Inc. August, 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.