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Higher Level Software today (2005)• GPFS provides the fundamental I/O functionality– Reads/writes data from/to disks, replicates data as required, providesparallelism and interface to external world, etc.– Each brick contains one instance of GPFS’s NSD (Network StorageDevice) service• Kybos provides self-management– Translates the human-intuitive language of ‘resource pools’ into GPFSactions and resource configuration– Provides system monitoring services for its own and human use– Adapts to failures and new resources by controlling GPFS configurationand actionsARC External Website, Intelligent Bricks, 2005