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Benchmarking

IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.

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Apache HTTP Server – HTTP server for modern operating systems

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, Apache has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

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sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

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SeaweedFS – fast distributed storage system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system to store billions of files, and to serve the files fast.

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JuiceFS – distributed POSIX file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. It’s free and open source software written in Go.

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GlusterFS – software scalable network filesystem

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.

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Lustre – parallel file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Lustre is a massively, global, parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing.

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Ceph – unified, distributed storage system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Ceph is a unified, distributed storage, massively scalable system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

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Hadoop Distributed File System – portable file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed, scalable, and portable file system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.

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Quantcast File System – high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Quantcast File System (QFS) is a high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system developed to support MapReduce processing.

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Network

OrangeFS – open-source parallel file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OrangeFS is an open-source, multi-server scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments.

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Network

Alluxio – virtual distributed file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Alluxio is a virtual distributed storage system. It bridges the gap between computation frameworks and storage systems.

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Network

XtreemFS – object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

XtreemFS is a general purpose storage system and covers most storage needs in a single deployment. XtreemFS is free and open source software.

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Maths

SINGULAR – Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SINGULAR is a Computer Algebra System for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra.

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Hard disk image

Smartmontools – control and monitor storage systems

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

The smartmontools package contains two open source utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems

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Sweeper – clean cruft from your system

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Sweeper is an open source history and temporary file cleaner for KDE 5, a powerful graphical desktop environment.

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System Cleaning

Ubuntu Cleaner – Clean up your system

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Ubuntu Cleaner is an open source system tool for Ubuntu and Debian based distributions. The software makes it easy to configure your system.

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Maths

PARI/GP – computer algebra system

September 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory e.g factorizations, algebraic number theory.

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Maths

SageMath – open source Python mathematics software system

September 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SageMath is a computer algebra system written in Python and Cython and integrates an included distribution of specialized mathematics.

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Maths

Axiom – general purpose computer algebra system

September 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Axiom is a general purpose computer algebra system.Axiom is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms.

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