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GOS is a successor of well-used network-attached storage (NAS) products in the Grid Computing era. A GOS-specific File System (GOS-FS), a P2P clustering technique, the single-purpose intent of a GOS operating system (OS), and a browser-based management console motivate and enable this new architecture. GOS is the first demonstration that Office/database/Web/media applications can be accelerated by tenfold in real-world tests. GOS systems usually contain one or more hard disks, often arranged into logical, redundant storage containers or RAIDs (redundant arrays of independent disks), as do traditional file servers.
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GOS is designed to deal with long-distance, cross-___domain and single-image file operations, which is typical in Grid environments. GOS behaves like a file server via the file-based GOS-FS protocol to any entity on the grid. Inspired by the success of GridFTP, GOS-FS integrates a parallel stream engine and Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI). Conforming to the universal VFS (Virtual Filesystem Switch), GOS-FS can be pervasively used as an underlying platform to best utilize the increased transfer bandwidth and accelerate the NFS/CIFS-based applications. GOS can also run over SCSI, Fibre Channel or iSCSI, which does not affect the acceleration performance, offering both file level protocols and block level protocols for Storage Area Network (SAN) from the same system.
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