News
New White Paper Features OrangeFS
Read about the new OrangeFS Reference Architecture, configured and tested on Dell's solutions for high-performance, data-intensive applications, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), oil and gas simulations, and genomics. Dell features the paper on its LHC Project Site with a detailed summary page, which includes the direct PDF link to the document.
Other Recent News
Download: New OrangeFS Release (Version 2.8.5) • Jan 31, 2012 • OrangeFS.org Download Page
Video: Dr. Walt Ligon Presents OrangeFS at SC11 • Nov 21, 2011 • Dell HPC Community
Article: “Parallel File System OrangeFS Starts to Build a Following” • Nov 21, 2011 • HPCwire.com
Press Release: OrangeFS Adds Windows Client to Next-Gen Parallel File System • Sep 28, 2011
View Most Recent Roadmap Update
See the presentation our development team is using to explain current plans for OrangeFS product direction.
▷ROADMAP
OrangeFS: Past, Present, Future
What the PVFS2 foundation provided:
- Distributed metadata; modular design
- MPI and standard Linux kernel support
- Highly scalable storage, excellent for large data-sets and large files
- Performance speeds significantly faster than NFS using MPI-IO interface
What OrangeFS has already added:
- Commercial-grade support; focused development team
- Windows client; separate metadata location; replicate on immutable
- Improved small-file performance
What is currently being added:
- Distributed directories for improved access time
- Enhanced client libraries; client-side caching and WebDAV support
- Capability based access control
▷FEATURES
Why OrangeFS Stands Out
What features make OrangeFS
right for your environment?
- Object-based design
- Separation of data and metadata
- Optimized MPI-IO requests/support
- Multiple network architectures
- Stateless (lockless) servers
- User-level implementation
- Support for standard Linux (no custom kernels needed)
- Reliable, scalable, portable, flexible
- Hardware independent; painless deployment; research platform
Current Projects In Development
- Metadata operations
- Small, unaligned accesses
- Cross-server redundancy
- Secure access control
- Improved documentation
▷SERVICES
What Omnibond Offers
Paid, commercial-grade services
are now
available for OrangeFS
With an OrangeFS HPC subscription, customers can:
- Get fast escalation for bug fixes
- Get access to the support team with available developer escalation for support issues, including 24x7 support for critical issues
- Get remote installation and design assistance
- Get unlimited named, designated support contacts
- Help fund the future of free and open object-based parallel file systems on which you can build your future
- Provide direct input on future features and directions
- Drive the direction and derive the benefits of functionality and performance testing scenarios for OrangeFS
We offer these subscriptions at various levels for:
- Commercial Entities
- Government, Research Labs and Educational (Non-Teaching)
- Classroom, Instructional, Hobby, Testing and QA
Download OrangeFS Now
Visit The Development Community
At OrangeFS.org