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Ceph (software)

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In computing, Ceph (pronounced or) is a free-software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage. [1]

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;login: is a long-running technical journal published by the USENIX Association, focusing on the UNIX operating system and system administration in general.

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Amazon S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud computing web service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Apache CloudStack

CloudStack is open-source cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.

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Banana slug

Banana slug is a common name for three North American species of terrestrial slug in the genus Ariolimax.

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BeeGFS

BeeGFS is a parallel file system, developed and optimized for high-performance computing.

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Block (data storage)

In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole number of records, having a maximum length, a block size.

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Btrfs

Btrfs (pronounced as "butter fuss", "better F S", "butter F S", "b-tree F S", or simply by spelling it out) is a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle, initially designed at Oracle Corporation for use in Linux.

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C (programming language)

C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

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C++

C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.

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Canonical (company)

Canonical Ltd. is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu Linux and related projects.

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Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

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Clustered file system

A clustered file system is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers.

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Commodity computing

Commodity computing (also known as commodity cluster computing) involves the use of large numbers of already-available computing components for parallel computing, to get the greatest amount of useful computation at low cost.

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Computer cluster

A computer cluster is a set of loosely or tightly connected computers that work together so that, in many respects, they can be viewed as a single system.

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Computer data storage

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.

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Computer file

A computer file is a computer resource for recording data discretely in a computer storage device.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

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Computing platform

A computing platform or digital platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Daemon (computing)

In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.

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Data striping

In computer data storage, data striping is the technique of segmenting logically sequential data, such as a file, so that consecutive segments are stored on different physical storage devices.

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Device file

In Unix-like operating systems, a device file 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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Directory (computing)

In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories.

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DreamHost

DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar.

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Exabyte

The exabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Ext4

The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.

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Fault tolerance

Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure (or one or more faults within) some of its components.

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Filesystem in Userspace

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code.

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Free software

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Ganeti

Ganeti is a virtual machine cluster management tool developed by Google.

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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.

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Gluster

Gluster Inc. was a software company that provided an open source platform for scale-out public and private cloud storage.

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GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Scale is a high-performance clustered file system developed by IBM.

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Inktank Storage

Inktank Storage was the lead development contributor and financial sponsor company behind the open source Ceph distributed file system.

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Inode

The inode is a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a filesystem object such as a file or a directory.

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Intel

Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.

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Jack Baskin School of Engineering

The Jack Baskin School of Engineering is the school of engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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Kernel-based Virtual Machine

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.

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KernelTrap

KernelTrap was a computing news website which covered topics related to the development of free and open source operating system kernels, and especially, the Linux kernel.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is an American federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.

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Library (computing)

In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator, and historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating systems, Android, and Chrome OS.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is an open-source monolithic Unix-like computer operating system kernel.

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Linux Magazine

Linux Magazine is an international magazine for Linux software enthusiasts and professionals.

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List of file systems

The following lists identify, characterize, and link to more thorough information on computer file systems.

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LizardFS

LizardFS is an open source distributed file system that is POSIX-compliant and licensed under GPLv3.

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Load balancing (computing)

In computing, load balancing improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources, such as computers, a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, or disk drives.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

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Lustre (file system)

Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.

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LWN.net

LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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MapR FS

The MapR File System (MapR FS) is a clustered file system that supports both very large-scale and high-performance uses.

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Metadata

Metadata is "data that provides information about other data".

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Moose File System

Moose File System (MooseFS) is an Open-source, POSIX-compliant distributed file system developed by Core Technology.

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N+1 redundancy

N+1 redundancy is a form of resilience that ensures system availability in the event of component failure.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT-Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the DOE.

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Object storage

Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks.

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OpenNebula

OpenNebula is a cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures.

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OpenStack

OpenStack (O~S) is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), whereby virtual servers and other resources are made available to customers.

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OrangeFS

OrangeFS is an open source parallel file system, the next generation of Parallel Virtual File System.

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Parallel Virtual File System

The Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) is an open source parallel file system.

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PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language.

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POSIX

The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.

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Proxmox Virtual Environment

Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is an open-source server virtualization environment.

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Python (programming language)

Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.

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Quantcast File System

Quantcast File System (QFS) is an open-source distributed file system software package for large-scale MapReduce or other batch-processing workloads.

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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives

Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives are Linux distributions that are based on the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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Replication (computing)

Replication in computing involves sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility.

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Representational state transfer

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints and properties based on HTTP.

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RozoFS

RozoFS is a free software distributed file system.

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Sage Weil

Sage Weil (born March 17, 1978) is the founder and chief architect of Ceph, a distributed storage platform.

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SanDisk

SanDisk is a manufacturer of flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, and solid state drives.

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Self-management (computer science)

Self-Management is the process by which computer systems shall manage their own operation without human intervention.

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Single point of failure

A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working.

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SlideShare

LinkedIn SlideShare is a hosting service for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos.

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Snapshot (computer storage)

In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time.

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Standard RAID levels

In computer storage, the standard RAID levels comprise a basic set of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) configurations that employ the techniques of striping, mirroring, or parity to create large reliable data stores from multiple general-purpose computer hard disk drives (HDDs).

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SUSE

SUSE is a German-based, multinational, open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers.

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Thesis

A thesis or dissertation is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Thin provisioning

In computing, thin provisioning involves using virtualization technology to give the appearance of having more physical resources than are actually available.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC), is a public research university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system.

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Webring

A webring (or web ring) is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure, and usually organized around a specific theme, often educational or social.

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XFS

XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in 1993.

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XtreemFS

XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks.

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ZFS

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle Corporation.

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