Projects

OpenAFS

AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability, security, and ... [More] transparent migration capabilities for data. IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS. [Less]

MogileFS

Distributed filesystem. Sprays files around and deals with all sorts of failures. Easily add/remove commodity machines and community disks.

Inferno Distributed Operating System

Inferno® is a distributed operating system, originally developed at Bell Labs, but now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova® as Free Software. Applications written in Inferno's concurrent programming language, Limbo, are compiled to its portable virtual machine code (Dis), to run anywhere on ... [More] a network in the portable environment that Inferno provides. Unusually, that environment looks and acts like a complete operating system. The use of a high-level language and virtual machine is sensible but mundane. The interesting thing is the system's representation of services and resources. They are represented in a file-like name hiearchy. Programs access them using only the file operations open, read/write, and close. The 'files' may of course represent stored data, but may also be devices, network and protocol interfaces, dynamic data sources, and services. The approach unifies and provides basic naming, structuring, and access control mechanisms for all system resources. A single file-service protocol (called Styx or 9P2000) makes all those resources available for import or export throughout the network in a uniform way, independent of location. An application simply attaches the resources it needs to its own per-process name hierarchy ('name space'). The system can be used to build portable client and server applications. It makes it straightforward to build lean applications that share all manner of resources over a network, without the cruft of much of the 'Grid' software one sees. Inferno can run 'native' on various ARM, PowerPC, SPARC and x86 platforms but also 'hosted', under an existing operating system (including FreeBSD, Irix, Linux, MacOS X, Plan 9, and Solaris), again on various processor types. [Less]

Fura

Fura is a self-contained grid middleware that allows the grid enablement and distribution of applications on heterogeneous computational resources. Fura features a web-based GUI, wizard-guided installation and configuration, and Web Services compliance. Fura's component based plug-in ... [More] architecture allows grid services to be extended or replaced, and new services can be developed reusing existing components. [Less]

Cleversafe - Dispersed Storage

Cleversafe provides a dispersed data storage solution.

Coda Distributed File System

Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems. Currently, Coda has several features not found elsewhere.

XtreemFS

XtreemFS is a distributed filesystem designed for storage systems that span the Internet. It allows you to mount an XtreemFS volume from anywhere, given the right permissions. It includes support for POSIX ACLs and extended attributes (xattrs). As an object-based parallel file system, it allows you ... [More] to stripe files over multiple storage servers for high-performance parallel access with file-specific striping pattern. It can be integrated in X.509-based security infrastructures. [Less]

youtubefs

"" YoutubeFS enables you to browse your favorite Youtube videos locally on your desktop without going to the youtube website. Just create a youtube account and add videos to your playlists, favorites list or subscribe to different channels. YoutubeFS then enables you to automatically ... [More] load these videos to a local folder on your desktop. You can then view these videos (using a browser) as if they are local files. Currently YoutubeFS works on Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) and Mac OS (Leopard 10.5.1). Please refer to the quick start guide for more details. Copyright (c) 2007 Vishal Patil [Less]

chironfs

Chiron FS is a FUSE based filesystem which implements replication at the FILESYSTEM LEVEL like RAID 1 does at the DEVICE LEVEL. The replicated filesystems may be of any kind you want the only requisite is that you mount it. No need for special configuration files, the setup is as simple as one mount command (or one line in fstab).

PVFS

PVFS is an open-source, scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments. It is designed specifically to scale to very large numbers of clients and servers. The architecture is very modular, allowing for easy inclusion of new hardware support and new algorithms. ... [More] This makes PVFS a perfect research testbed as well. [Less]