Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
10.3.3 Amazon Web Services
OrangeFS now provides a scalable storage solution for cloud cluster com-
puting on Amazon Web Services. Amazon Marketplace provides easy access
to two options: OrangeFS High Performance Cloud Storage|Community and
OrangeFS High Performance Cloud Storage|Advanced (provisioned IOPS).
Both configurations come in 4-, 8- and 16-instance OrangeFS storage clusters
that can be leveraged for various big data and HPC applications.
10.4 Conclusion
OrangeFS is an open-source high performance cluster file system. As the
next evolution of PVFS, it continues the tradition of community development,
user-level coding to make it easy to integrate and maintain, and high levels
of parallelism in both data and metadata access. OrangeFS has worked to
extend this to new application areas with a rich collection of user interfaces for
different operating systems and development environments, improved security,
professional documentation, better metadata parallelism, and the availability
of commercial support. One of the most often cited features is how easy it
is to obtain, build, and install OrangeFS. The design focuses on performance
first, in some cases relaxing POSIX consistency semantics, but above all it is
driven by users' needs. OrangeFS is maintained by a dedicated development
team, and continues to be used extensively for research in universities due to
its clean design and modular structure. The latest developments, Version 3,
will extend OrangeFS into exascale with built-in replication, dynamic server
management, support for remote sites, and policy-based distribution of data
and metadata. OrangeFS remains one of the earliest community developed
parallel file systems and a leader in bringing the latest technologies to bear.
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