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FraunhoferFS (FhGFS) is the high-performance parallel file system from the Fraunhofer Competence Center for High Performance Computing. Its distributed metadata architecture has been designed to provide the scalability and flexibility that is required to run today's most demanding HPC applications.
FhGFS is provided free of charge. Commercial support is available directly from Fraunhofer or from our international partners.
(New FhGFS updates will be announced on the
FhGFS  page.)
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News
April 23, 2013 - First FhGFS User Meeting: Fraunhofer will host the first FhGFS User Meeting on May 13/14 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Please check out the meeting website for more information: FhGFS User Meeting 2013.
January 24, 2013 - New Major Release: Packages for the new major FhGFS release are now available for download here (version 2012.10-r1). Changes include:
- Redesigned internal metadata handling and new on-disk metadata format, which achieves more than twice the amount of file creates per second sustained, compared to previous 2011.04 release series.
- Redesigned file system consistency check, which now only needs a single pass to check for all kinds of problems.
- New basic support for hybrid client- and server-side file contents mirroring and metadata mirroring as foundation for more mirroring-based enhancements in upcoming release versions.
- New built-in benchmarking modes and advanced tuning settings.
Please see changelog for a more detailed list of changes. Yum/apt repository files are available here.
Tools to upgrade the on-disk format from the previous 2011.04 release series and the upgrade guide are available here.
November 16, 2012 - SC12 Presentation Slides: The slides of Christian's SC12 exhibitor forum presentation with several benchmark results of the 2012.10 beta release are now available here.
October 12, 2012 - Beta for next Major Release: Beta packages for the next major FhGFS release are now available for download here (version 2012.10-beta). Please see download folder for more release notes. Yum/apt repository files are available here.
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Events
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FhGFS at ISC'13 and EAGE'13
FhGFS will be presented at ISC'13 and EAGE'13. We invite you to learn about the new and upcoming features or to talk about how FhGFS can improve the performance of your typical I/O-intensive applications.
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