FhGFS is the high-performance file system of the Fraunhofer Computing Center. The FhGFS distributed metadata architecture has been designed to provide the scalability and flexibility required to run today's most demanding HPC applications.
- Distributed Storage and Metadata System
The storage system and metadata division avoids important bottlenecks. Likewise, the Striping system allows several servers to inherit these roles, increasing performance and IOPS. Large systems benefit greatly from these systems thanks to the multiple metadata servers.
- HPC technology
FhGFS does not require Kernell patches, the components are easily installable thanks to its management tools. It also allows adding more clients and servers in the HPC system whenever you want. Likewise, the performance is exceptional since it has native RDMA protocol. In case of not having infiniband the performance in 10G is outstanding.
- Extremely easy to use
The entire installation is done GUI, in a few minutes the system is fully working. It also has official commercial support at various levels.
- Client and servers on any machine
Unlike other systems like Luster, FhGFS does not require specific hardware, even in small environments servers can perform client functions in small HPC environments.
- Big increase in consistency
Compared to the NFS system, changes are immediately visible, which guarantees an increase in consistency.
Thanks to the GFS system it is possible to mount a powerful distributed file system with multiple options. Much easier than other solutions such as Luster.
