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Welcome to the parfu_archive_tool wiki!

Parfu is an open-source utility similar to unix tar , but it's a parallel MPI program and runs on parallel or cluster computer systems. Because parfu scales out and does data writing in parallel, it can archive and extract a given amount of data much faster than tar or any of its kin. As of version 0.5.1, parfu archive files (*.pfu) are tar-compatible; that is, generic unix tar can unpack them. The master branch of the repo is currently 0.5.1 alpha. It works as far as we know but it has a very simple command-line interface and can only create archives, not extract them or list tables-of-contents.

This wiki is the documentation for the code. In addition to how to build it and use parfu, this wiki details the code's history, status, and roadmap.

If you're using parfu, and there's something you don't understand or something you need to know, and it's not in this wiki somewhere, please file a ticket against parfu and ask.

Parfu current status and description of interface

Parfu data storage, blocking, and movement description

What features we'll be adding to Parfu and (possibly) when