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The central computers and distributed workstations maintained by Research Computing all use AFS.
AFS is a distributed filesystem product (originally Andrew File System), pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs), and then released by IBM under an open-source license. It is now maintained and developed as OpenAFS by OpenAFS.Org. It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability, and transparent migration capabilities for data. Client software is available for almost all versions of UNIX, including Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Kerberos is used for access control.
The client software may be installed on any suitable computer and provides direct access to the user files and installed software packages. All clients see the same exact view of the fileservers, although unauthenticated users will only have access to those parts that are publicly readable.
OpenAFS has client software freely available for many platforms. Complete documentation is available; see OpenAFS Documentation.
Listed below are the platforms tested and used by Computing Services, with pointers to installation instructions and hints for each.
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