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SystemRescueCd – system rescue disk
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. It can also be booted over the network using PXE.
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HardInfo – small system administration tool
HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It’s a system profiler and benchmark.
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IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool
IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.
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sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quantcast File System (QFS) is a high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system developed to support MapReduce processing.
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OrangeFS – open-source parallel file system
OrangeFS is an open-source, multi-server scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments.
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Alluxio – virtual distributed file system
Alluxio is a virtual distributed storage system. It bridges the gap between computation frameworks and storage systems.
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XtreemFS – object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks
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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Smartmontools – control and monitor storage systems
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
Sweeper is an open source history and temporary file cleaner for KDE 5, a powerful graphical desktop environment.
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Ubuntu Cleaner – Clean up your system
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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PARI/GP – computer algebra system
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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SageMath – open source Python mathematics software system
SageMath is a computer algebra system written in Python and Cython and integrates an included distribution of specialized mathematics.
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