On Saturday 09 December 2006 10:36, samit wrote: > hello list, > > i am looking for a application (most preferably, but not necessarily OSS or > free software) and that can create distributed, reliable, fault tolerant, > decentralized, high preformance file server. I've looked at few P2P file > storing solutions that store multiple copies of file in different server > for data reliability but i havent found any solution that would help me > access a file as flexibly like the local file with high preformance. Cross > platform solution would be even better as i want to aovoid the SMB overhead > if its just a linux based solution! > > PLEASE RECOMENT ME SOMETHING!? feel free to suggest any solutions that even > qualifies half of this criteria!
Have you considered G-FARM? http://datafarm.apgrid.org OpenSource Grid filesystem by the Japanese researchers. I did a proof-of-concept for my customer a year ago. There was also a talk on G-FARM by Osamu Tatebe at SC2006... GFARM (Grid File System) stores metadata on an LDAP server and is able to replicate files on multiple data/file servers. They recommend you "bring" the compute job to the host containing (probably) large files rather than staging files in and out. Regards Anand > > -bipin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Anand Vaidya _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
