The Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) is an open-source parallel file system. A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes...
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complexity of the other parts of the cluster. Parallel file systems are a type of clustered file system that spread data across multiple storage nodes...
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high-performance distributed parallel file system for Linux, used on many of the largest computers in the world. Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS, PVFS2, OrangeFS)...
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speeds than with a single device. Other ways of parallel access to data include: Parallel Virtual File System, Lustre, GFS etc. It is used for scientific...
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OrangeFS (category Distributed file systems supported by the Linux kernel)
open-source parallel file system, the next generation of Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS). A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that...
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Ceph (software) (redirect from Ceph File System)
OrangeFS Parallel Virtual File System Quantcast File System RozoFS Software-defined storage XtreemFS ZFS Comparison of distributed file systems "Ceph Community...
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Fraunhofer File System (BeeGFS), Lustre File System, IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), and Parallel Virtual File System. MapR-FS is a distributed file system...
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Russel Sandberg, Bob Lyon, Bill Joy, Steve Kleiman, and others. The Virtual File System interface allows a modular implementation, reflected in a simple...
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Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle...
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Memory paging (redirect from Virtual paging)
system. For historical reasons, this technique is sometimes referred to as swapping. When combined with virtual memory, it is known as paged virtual memory...
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systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....
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In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and...
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GPFS (redirect from General Parallel File System)
(General Parallel File System, brand name IBM Storage Scale and previously IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance clustered file system software developed...
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Apache Hadoop (redirect from Hadoop Distributed File System)
a more conventional supercomputer architecture that relies on a parallel file system where computation and data are distributed via high-speed networking...
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OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...
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condition resulting from a viral infection Parallel Virtual File System, a type of distributed file system This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hypervisor providing hardware virtualization for Mac computers. It is developed by Parallels, a subsidiary of Corel. Parallels...
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LizardFS Lustre MapR FS Moose File System OrangeFS Parallel Virtual File System Quantcast File System RozoFS XtreemFS ZFS "About Us". gluster.com. 2008...
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File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default file system for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating...
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Legacy PC, or restoring a system image made from Backup and Restore (Windows Vista/7) MSI – Windows installation file VDHX – Virtual disk created by Hyper-V...
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In computer storage, a global file system is a distributed file system that can be accessed from multiple locations, typically across a wide-area network...
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Parallels Workstation is the first commercial software product released by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop and server virtualization software....
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resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s with IBM CP/CMS. The control program...
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Computer cluster (redirect from Computer cluster in virtual machines)
Cluster File System. Two widely used approaches for communication between cluster nodes are MPI (Message Passing Interface) and PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)...
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VMware Workstation (category Virtualization software)
devices with a virtual machine. It can simulate disk drives; an ISO image file can be mounted as a virtual optical disc drive, and virtual hard disk drives...
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The VHD file acts as a snapshot. The undo disk file (.vud) incrementally stores changes made by the virtual machine compared to the main Virtual hard disk...
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implementation details of parallel runtime systems. A notable example of a parallel runtime system is Cilk, a popular parallel programming model. The proto-runtime...
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Tahoe-LAFS (category Distributed file systems)
System LizardFS iFolder List of distributed file systems Lustre (file system) Parallel Virtual File System XtreemFS IPFS "Tahoe-LAFS Documentation". tahoe-lafs...
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A grid file system is a computer file system whose goal is improved reliability and availability by taking advantage of many smaller file storage areas...
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VMDK (redirect from VMDK (file format))
VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware...
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