OrangeFS is an open-source parallel file system, the next generation of Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS).
A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides for concurrent access by multiple tasks of a parallel application.
OrangeFS was designed for use in large-scale cluster computing and is used by companies, universities, national laboratories and similar sites worldwide.
Spanning twenty years, the extensive history behind OrangeFS is summarized in the time line below.
The OrangeFS branch was begun in 2007, when leaders in the PVFS2 user community determined that: This is why OrangeFS is often described as the next generation of PVFS2.