Who's using GlusterFS

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 July 2008 Archimedia s.n.c. - Brescia, Italy.

 GlusterFS 1.3.9.
 Two nodes using server-side AFR for HA, exporting with multiple gluster instances mailboxes and web
 roots for users (~4TiB). Each node has 2x4cores, 8GiB of RAM and RAID5, networked to two Gigabit switches.

 June 2008 VA-Technologies - Luton, UK.

 We are using GlusterFS 1.3.9 as a HA Storage Cluster.

 8 Nodes, AFR'd, Unified. 4 Cores, 8Gb Ram & Raid. Nodes are bonded and trunked to Gigabit switch.

June 2008 Intergam Technologies Corporation - Chicago, IL, USA. 
We're using 4 nodes setup (unify over afr) for our internal storage.

May 2008 thebizmo / UGC Ltd. - London, UK - Media sales and distribution system.
Currently using a four node mirrored GlusterFS setup for content storage.

April 2008 OlyPen, Inc. - Sequim, WA, USA - Internet Service Provider and web hosting. 
 Currently testing AFR for web data replication, possibly moving to use with mail cluster.

Apr 2008 DKPSystem.com - Wisconsin, USA - Guild and clan hosting site. 
GlusterFS with AFR stores and serves user uploaded media. Three nodes currently.

Feb 2008 Curse, Inc. - MMORPG addon and social site.  We're using glusterfs 
AFR functionality to house all user generated content, enabling horizontal scaling of both download 
and upload servers. Currently two nodes, adding more in the coming months.

Feb 2008 Echo Systems, Inc. - Provider of metered online storage. We offer 
custom glusterfs server volumes from our highly available storage pool, starting at only USD 15¢/GB. 
Customer picks version.

Feb 2008 Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona - Spain
[Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - http://www.uic.es/]
After nearly one year looking at this project, we're thinking to use it soon in our 
development environment. 
Just 4 bricks in an AFR configuration for a HD HA in a web farm cluster.

Oct 2007 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - Chemistry department - India
24 brick GlusterFS storage on Infiniband for High Performance Computation Cluster

Oct 2007 Babcock & Brown - USA
AFR based GlusterFS storage on Infiniband High Performance Computation Cluster

Oct 2007 NAKAYAMA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 
www.nkym.com.ph - International Website
www.nkym.co.jp - Japan Website
We are going to use glusterfs for our file and web servers

26 Oct 2007 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - www.ncsa.uiuc.edu - United States
Testing GlusterFS as a possibility for shared mail spools.

26 Sep 2007 Nokta Internet Technologies - www.blogcu.com - Turkey
we using glusterfs tla , 2 file server and 15 high availability web farm (client) on linux.
We started to use glusterfs for failover and high speed, also it solved our io lock problem on 
our servers.  

24 Sep 2007 Cloud Nine - Testing a 5 brick GlusterFS instance as an alternative to using MogileFS
or our current NFS web. Virginia, USA.

06 Sep 2007 Get Safe Systems, Pty Ltd. - Australia
We're using GlusterFS on Gentoo Linux (Hardened/i686 variant) as shared storage for
two high-availability servers providing clustered MySQL, PostgreSQL, mail and web
hosting, with reliability just shy of 99% uptime (downtime mostly due to upgrades.)

Configuration as at 20080221: 2.6.20-hardened-r10 kernel, TLA 636, Fuse 2.7.2 GLFS8,
configured as AFR, Unify, IO-Threads, and Posix Locks on namespace and dataspace
bricks on each server, communicating over a dedicated Gigabit Ethernet network.

23 Aug 2007 Unleash Computers Ltd - Nationwide, New Zealand

9 Aug 2007 Sunbeam Television (Video Archive Storage)

9 Jul 2007 mattsoftware.com, Australia
Currently experimenting with clusters for use in High Availability web farms.
We intend to use GlusterFS as the distributed filesystem to provide redundancy and failover.

9 Jul 2007 Stanford Exploration Project, Stanford University, California
GlusterFS storage on Infiniband for High Performance Computation Cluster

9 Jul 2007 WorldxChange Communications - Auckland, New Zealand.

8 Jul 2007 University of California, Merced - School of Engineering (Computer Vision, more specifically).

Jun 2007 Institute of Plasma Research - India
GlusterFS on Infiniband for High Performance Computation Cluster

1 Sept 2007 ww.com (testing and experiments, after having evaluated 'hadoop' and finding it unsuitable) 

Oct 2007 Placenet.fr (FAI - France). Evaluation (Expérimentation) de ce système
de fichiers (Mode AFR seulement avec Xen) sur 3 serveurs (gluster-server sur les Dom0)
et de nombreux clients (gluster-client sur les DomU) au travers d'un réseau maillé.

16 Sep 2007 Yuhu.biz - BGServers.com - Buglaria 
We use GlusterFS for our Shared Hosting solutions on 3 servers which are on different
physical locations. 
GlusterFS 1.3.7, Kernels 2.6.23.1

Jan 2007 PDVSA R&D, PDVSA, Venezuela
GlusterFS on Infiniband for tape data migration and HPC cluster computing