Gluster
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| Gluster - A Meta Distribution | |
| Website | http://www.gluster.org/ |
|---|---|
| Company/ developer |
Gluster Core Team |
| OS family | Linux |
| Source model | Free software |
| Latest stable release | 1.4 / 03 December 2007 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic kernel |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Working state | Stable |
Gluster is a clustering Linux distribution started by Z Research under the direction of Anand Babu aiming at commoditizing supercomputing and superstorage. Gluster aims at providing a platform for developing clustering applications tailored for a specific tasks such as HPC clustering, storage clustering, enterprise provisioning, and database clustering.
Gluster makes heavy use of muti-casting and RDMA where ever possible.
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