by local storage of compute nodes. ▶ Designed for wide-area file sharing ◦ across institutes connected through the Internet. ▶ Open-Source project by Prof. Tatebe ◦ Since 2000. ◦ Gfarm ver. 2 since 2007. ◦ Current version: version 2.6.12 ▶ Reference: ◦ Osamu Tatebe, Kohei Hiraga, Noriyuki Soda, "Gfarm Grid File System", New Generation Computing, 2010, Vol.28, issue 3, p.257 Sep.9, 2016 RubyKaigi2016@Kyoto 30