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Gfarm file system

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Gfarm file system
Developer(s)NPO Tsukuba OSS Technical Support Center
Stable release
2.8.0 / September 3, 2023
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X, Solaris
TypeDistributed file system
LicenseX11
WebsiteGfarm file system

Gfarm file system is an open-source distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing and wide-area data sharing, and provides features to manage replica location explicitly. The name is derived from the Grid Data Farm architecture it implements.

Grid Datafarm is a petascale data-intensive computing project initiated in Japan.[1] The project is a collaboration among High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),[2] the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Tsukuba. The challenge involves construction of a Peta- to Exascale parallel filesystem exploiting local storage of PCs spread over the worldwide Grid.

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References

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  1. ^ Osamu Tatebe, Kohei Hiraga, Noriyuki Soda, "Gfarm Grid File System", New Generation Computing, Ohmsha, Ltd. and Springer, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp.257-275, 2010.
  2. ^ High Performance Computing Infrastructure project
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