News
New OrangeFS Release
The OrangeFS Team released updates (version 2.8.5) on January 31 for OrangeFS and its Windows Client. Both are available for download at the OrangeFS.org Download Page. Version 2.8.5 provides many bug fixes and stability enhancements, including kernel module support for newer kernels.
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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
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