Gluster
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Gluster - A Meta Distribution | |
Website | http://www.gluster.org/ |
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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.