| Gfarm file system | |
| Developer: | NPO Tsukuba OSS Technical Support Center |
| Latest Release Version: | 2.8.0 |
| Latest Release Date: | September 3, 2023 |
| Operating System: | Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X, Solaris |
| Genre: | Distributed file system |
| License: | X11 |
| Website: | Gfarm 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.