Panasas: Open Sources DirectFLOW Client Software

[07/05/23]
"Panasas' Len Rosenthal Speaks On the Plans to Open Source DirectFLOW", May 21, 2007, Supercomputing Online
　http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=13784
"We sat down with Chief Marketing Officer Len Rosenthal to talk about the standard and why Panasas is making the move now to open source some of its "family jewels." "
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[07/05/23]
"Panasas Drives Industry Adoption Of Parallel Storage To Solve Storage I/O Bottlenecks; Open Sources Client Software
　Panasas to be First Storage Vendor to Release Parallel NFS Compatible Storage Systems", May 21, 2007
　http://www.panasas.com/press_release_052107.html
"...today announced the source code release of key components of its industry leading parallel file system client software, DirectFLOW®, to accelerate the adoption of Parallel Network File System (pNFS), which is to be released as part of the NFS version 4.1 standard."

"Later this year, the IETF NFSv4 subcommittee will conclude its work on the protocol as part of the NFS version 4.1 Request For Comment (RFC). pNFS enables direct parallel data transfer between clients and storage devices."

"Panasas will be open sourcing code of the DirectFLOW client for Linux to the storage and developer community, specifically, the object layout driver and iSCSI drivers. The code will be available to the storage community on the Panasas Web site, www.panasas.com, and at www.pnfs.com. Current Panasas customers can access early releases of the code from the Panasas customer support Web site later this summer."


pNFS Resource Center, Panasas
　http://www.panasas.com/pnfs_corner.html
pNFS.com
　http://www.pnfs.com/
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ビジュアルテクノロジーと Panasas社が業務提携, 07/05/14, 2007-05-21
pNFS ScreenCast at OpenSolaris.org, 2007-04-28
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/topography/s/Panasas