Hardware Reference
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FIGURE 10.3: Clients and interfaces for various operating systems, operating
environments, and development system.
There is an additional \iocommon" layer which can be used by sys-
tem programmers to implement new interfaces using the facilities pro-
vided by the Direct Interface. This layer makes its calls directly to the
OrangeFS system interface.
Windows. The Windows client provides native parallel access to
OrangeFS/PVFS2 file systems for desktops and servers using Microsoft
Windows via standard parallel programming APIs. Options for authen-
tication and user mapping include LDAP and X.509 certificates. The
client, which runs as a standard Windows service, supports Windows
Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012
(all editions); x86 and x64. The Windows client enables viewing files
through Windows Explorer and the command prompt or accessing files
programmatically through standard function calls, for example,
fopen()
in C programming. In testing, the Windows client performs nearly as
fast as the Linux client.
WebDAV. The OrangeFS Web Pack provides Direct WebDav support. It
enables cross platform Web-based access to OrangeFS with more seam-
less upload and download operations on Mac and Windows clients. The
