The OrangeFS Project
is work that revolves around OrangeFS, a scale-out network file system designed for use on high-end computing (HEC) systems that provides very high-performance access to multi-server-based disk storage, in parallel. The OrangeFS server and client are user-level code, making them very easy to install and manage. OrangeFS has optimized MPI-IO support for parallel and distributed applications, and it is leveraged in production installations and used as a research platform for distributed and parallel storage.
OrangeFS is now part of the Linux kernel as of version 4.6. As this version of the kernel becomes widely available, it will simplify the use of parallel storage by Linux applications through OrangeFS.
The OrangeFS project has developed diverse methods of parallel access including Linux kernel integration, native Windows client, HCFS-compliant JNI interface to the Spark/Hadoop ecosystem of applications.
The OrangeFS project continues to push the envelope of file system research while bringing high-performance parallel storage to production-ready releases.
The recent heavy work has been focused around v3 core and the upstream Linux kernel work, but many changes and updates are still happening in the 2.x line. The goal is to optimize the filesystem for the majority of the real world AI, engineering, and research computing workloads and not focus on benchmarks that represent a minority of the workloads.
Releases
Linux Kernel 5.13 and Newer (see orangefs wikipedia for full list of updates)
Much faster IO for reads using the Linux page cache (not back-portable since it ties in with some key Linux kernel work to support this).
ORANGEFS 2.10.1
OrangeFS 2.10.1 includes several updates, fixes and updates for the latest Linux releases.
Download OrangeFS 2.10.1
View the ChangeLogfor the current release.
Please see the documentation page to find information about how to build, install, configure, and use OrangeFS.
Support and Services options are available here
OrangeFS is released under the LGPL License, some recent portions are also available under LGPL and Apache 2
WINDOWS CLIENT (ORANGEFS 2.10.1)
Windows Client 2.10.1
Download Windows Client (64-bit)
Discussions are now available at:
For OrangeFS discussions go to:
many of the kernel-based discussions are additionally available on those respective lists.