Parallel Virtual File System
- Parallel Virtual File System
The Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) is an Open Source parallel file system. A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides for concurrent access by multiple tasks of a parallel application. PVFS was designed for use in large scale cluster computing.
PVFS focuses on high performance access to large data sets. It consists of a server process and a client library, both of which are written entirely of user-level code. A Linux kernel module and pvfs-client process allow the file system to be mounted and used with standard utilities. The client library provides for high performance access via the message passing interface (MPI).
PVFS is being jointly developed between The Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory at Clemson University and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
PVFS development has been funded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, DOE Argonne National Laboratory, NSF PACI and HECURA programs, and other government and private agencies.
ee also
*Lustre (file system)
*List of file systems
External links
* [http://www.pvfs.org/ Parallel Virtual File System Home Page]
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