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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