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From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Federated File System (FFS)
Objects that execute on hosts in the CWVC are presented with a single unified file system abstraction - FFS.
The FFS interacts with local file systems, i.e. NFS mount structures, etc., so files visible on one host may not be available on another.
The FFS allows objects to view a single, unified file name space, and thus execute in a location independent manner.
Interfaces is similar to the Unix standard library file system - little change to existing code necessary.

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