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CernVM-FS is a web-based, global, and versioning file system optimized for software distribution.  The file system content is installed on a central web server from where it can be mirrored and cached by other web servers and web proxies.  File system clients download data and meta-data on demand and cache them locally.  Data integrity and authenticity is ensured by cryptographic hashes and digital signatures.  CernVM-FS is used, among others, by the LHC experiments for the distribution of 100 million files and directories of LHC experiment software onto tens of thousands of nodes distributed worldwide.

 

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    Pharma Company Using CERN File System
    The CernVM File System was developed to assist high-energy physics collaborations to deploy software on the worldwide-distributed computing infrastructure used to run data processing applications.
    medtech
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    CERN Virtual Machine File System for Euclid Science Data Centres
    Sharing software and codes in big data environments is a challenge. To do this efficiently researchers at CERN have developed a system called CernVM-FS, for CERN Virtual Machine File System, which is currently used in high-energy physics experiments to distribute about 350 million files.
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