Gfarm file system is an open-source software, 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.
[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.] The project is a collaboration among High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
High Performance Computing Infrastructure project 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.
See also
* Distributed file system
* List of file systems#Distributed parallel fault-tolerant file systems, List of file systems, the distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system section
References
External links
Gfarm file system Home PageOSS Tsukuba at GitHub
Distributed file systems
Distributed file systems supported by the Linux kernel
Network file systems
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