Gfarm file system

{{Infobox software

| name = Gfarm file system

| logo = Gfarm-logo.png

| developer = [http://oss-tsukuba.org/en/ 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 = [http://oss-tsukuba.org/en/software/gfarm 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.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),[https://www.hpci-office.jp/en 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.