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GFS Builders
GFS may refer to: Businesses and organisations * GFS Projects (Geoff's Flying Saucer), a British aerospace company * Girls' Friendly Society, a charity in the UK * GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS), an American semiconductor manufacturing company * Government Flying Service, Hong Kong * Gordon Food Service, North America * Greek Font Society * Groupe Feministe Socialiste, a defunct French feminist group Computing * GFS2 (Global File System 2), in Linux * Global Forecast System, American weather prediction system * Google File System * Grandfather-father-son, a backup rotation scheme Education * Garrison Forest School, in Owing Mills, Maryland, US * Germantown Friends School, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US * Griffith Film School, in Brisbane, Australia Other uses * Genome-based peptide fingerprint scanning * Glucose-fructose syrup, another name for high-fructose corn syrup * Grounds For Sculpture Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) is a Sculpture garden, sculpture park and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GFS Projects
GFS Projects Limited is a British company developing a vertical take-off and landing aircraft shaped like a flying saucer. The company was established in 2002 by Geoff Hatton, and won a contract with the US government in 2007 to design an unmanned aerial vehicle. The GFS Projects design uses the Coandă effect The Coandă effect ( or ) is the tendency of a jet (fluid), fluid jet to stay attached to a surface of any form. ''Merriam-Webster'' describes it as "the tendency of a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice to follow an adjacent flat or curved s ..., unlike the failed 1950s Avrocar project. The GFS Projects design is mechanically simpler, using negative upper surface air pressure caused by the Coanda effect. Scale prototypes capable of controlled flight have existed since 2005, constructed by both GFS Projects Ltd and amateur (enthusiast) UAV builders. GFS is an abbreviation of ''Geoff's Flying Saucer Technical background The concept of creating a disk or polygon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google File System
Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. Google file system was replaced by Colossus in 2010. Design GFS is enhanced for Google's core data storage and usage needs (primarily the search engine), which can generate enormous amounts of data that must be retained; Google File System grew out of an earlier Google effort, "BigFiles", developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the early days of Google, while it was still located in Stanford. Files are divided into fixed-size ''chunks'' of 64 megabytes, similar to clusters or sectors in regular file systems, which are only extremely rarely overwritten, or shrunk; files are usually appended to or read. It is also designed and optimized to run on Google's computing clusters, dense nodes which consist of cheap "commodity" computers, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-fructose Corn Syrup
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose–fructose, isoglucose, and glucose–fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes. To make HFCS, the corn syrup is further processed by D-xylose isomerase to convert some of its glucose into fructose. HFCS was first marketed in the early 1970s by the Clinton Corn Processing Company, together with the Japanese Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, where the enzyme was discovered in 1965. As a sweetener, HFCS is often compared to granulated sugar, but manufacturing advantages of HFCS over sugar include that it is cheaper. "HFCS 42" and "HFCS 55" refer to dry weight fructose compositions of 42% and 55% respectively, the rest being glucose. HFCS 42 is mainly used for processed foods and breakfast cereals, whereas HFCS 55 is used mostly for production of soft drinks. The United States Food and Drug Administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genome-based Peptide Fingerprint Scanning
Genome-based peptide fingerprint scanning (GFS) is a system in bioinformatics analysis that attempts to identify the genomic origin (that is, what species they come from) of sample proteins by scanning their peptide-mass fingerprint against the theoretical translation and proteolytic digest of an entire genome. This method is an improvement from previous methods because it compares the peptide fingerprints to an entire genome instead of comparing it to an already annotated genome. This improvement has the potential to improve genome annotation and identify proteins with incorrect or missing annotations. History and background GFS was designed by Michael C. Giddings (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) et al., and released in 2003. Giddings expanded the algorithms for GFS from earlier ideas. Two papers were published in 1993 explaining the techniques used to identify proteins in sequence databases. These methods determined the mass of peptides using mass spectrometry, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffith Film School
Griffith Film School (GFS) is a media production baccalaureate college that is part of Griffith University, located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Bachelor's degrees range from film and television production, animation, and game design. It is housed in the Queensland Heritage Register, heritage-listed former South Brisbane Library. History For some years before the foundation of the film school, film courses were offered at the Queensland College of Art, which had been annexed to the university in the early 1990s. Griffith Film School (GFS) was established in 2004, and received CILECT full membership (international accreditation) in 2005. Location The film school is housed in the Queensland Heritage Register, heritage-listed former South Brisbane Library in Brisbane. It is part of Griffith University. Degrees and diplomas Bachelor its bachelor degree courses include: * Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production * Bachelor of Animation * Bachelor of Games Design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germantown Friends School
Germantown Friends School (GFS) is a coeducational independent PreK–12 school in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States under the supervision of Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is governed by a School Committee whose members are drawn from the membership of the Meeting, the school's alumni and parents of current students and alumni. The head of school is Dana Weeks. History Germantown Friends School was founded in 1845 by Germantown Monthly Meeting. The school was founded in response to a request from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Until the early 20th century, Germantown Friends was a "select" school, meaning that only the children of Quaker parents were admitted. Germantown Monthly Meeting was an Orthodox meeting and valued classical education. Athletics and the arts were considered a diversion from the essentials needed by young people. Notable alumni This list includes graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrison Forest School
Garrison Forest School (GFS) is a non-denominational private college preparatory boarding and day school located on a campus in Owings Mills, Maryland. GFS offers kindergarten through 12th grade for girls as well as a co-educational program for pre-K and daycare. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Association of Independent Maryland Schools. History Garrison Forest was established by Mary Moncrieffe Livingston (1869-1956), the head of a day school in Kingston, New York, in 1910. She had previously visited Baltimore to visit her sister and brother-in-law and was invited by the community to start a co-ed school. The school she set up was located in a house off of Reisterstown Road in the Green Spring Valley Historic District. At its start, the primary school was co-ed while high school was for female students only. Within two years of opening, Livingston purchased an additional of land and expanded the school's fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandfather-father-son
A backup rotation scheme is a system of backing up data to computer media (such as tapes) that minimizes, by re-use, the number of media used. The scheme determines how and when each piece of removable storage is used for a backup job and how long it is retained once it has backup data stored on it. Different techniques have evolved over time to balance data retention and restoration needs with the cost of extra data storage media. Such a scheme can be quite complicated if it takes incremental backups, multiple retention periods, and off-site storage into consideration. Schemes First in, first out A first in, first out (FIFO) backup scheme saves new or modified files onto the "oldest" media in the set, i.e. the media that contain the oldest and thus least useful previously backed up data. Performing a daily backup onto a set of 14 media, the backup depth would be 14 days. Each day, the oldest media would be inserted when performing the backup. This is the simplest rotation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Forecast System
The Global Forecast System (GFS) is a global numerical weather prediction system containing a global computer model and variational analysis run by the United States' National Weather Service (NWS). Operation The mathematical model is run four times a day, and produces forecasts for up to 16 days in advance, but with decreased spatial resolution after 10 days. The forecast skill generally decreases with time (as with any numerical weather prediction model) and for longer term forecasts, only the larger scales retain significant accuracy. It is one of the predominant synoptic scale medium-range models in general use. Principles The GFS model has a finite volume cubed sphere (FV3) dynamical core with an approximate horizontal resolution of 28 km between grid points, which drops to 70 km between grid points for forecasts between one and two weeks. In the vertical, the model is divided into 127 layers and extends to the mesopause (roughly ~80 km). It produces forec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls' Friendly Society
The Girls' Friendly Society (GFS) is a charitable organisation that empowers girls and young women aged 5 to 25, encouraging them to develop their full potential through programs that provide training, confidence building, and other educational opportunities. It was originally established by a group of Anglican women in England in 1875 to address, through Christian values, the problems of working-class unmarried girls and young women who wished to better themselves. The main organisation, GFS England & Wales, ended its relationship with the Church of England in the early 2000s, now operating a secular model that supports girls and young women of all religions and none. History Beginnings In May 1874, the Reverend Thomas Vincent Fosbery (chaplain to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce), together with Mary Elizabeth Townsend (1841–1918), Catharine Tait (1819–1878), Elizabeth Browne (wife of the bishop of Winchester), and Jane Senior (1828–1877), met at Lambeth Palace and agreed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GFS2
In computing, the Global File System 2 (GFS2) is a shared-disk file system for Linux computer clusters. GFS2 allows all members of a cluster to have direct concurrent access to the same shared block storage, in contrast to distributed file systems which distribute data throughout the cluster. GFS2 can also be used as a local file system on a single computer. GFS2 has no disconnected operating-mode, and no client or server roles. All nodes in a GFS2 cluster function as peers. Using GFS2 in a cluster requires hardware to allow access to the shared storage, and a lock manager to control access to the storage. The lock manager operates as a separate module: thus GFS2 can use the distributed lock manager (DLM) for cluster configurations and the "nolock" lock manager for local filesystems. Older versions of GFS also support GULM, a server-based lock manager which implements redundancy via failover. GFS and GFS2 are free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groupe Feministe Socialiste
The Groupe Feministe Socialiste was founded in 1899 by Louise Saumoneau and Élisabeth Renaud, both working class socialists who wished to bring feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ... to the working class in France. The socialist movement and the feminist movement both existed, but had little overlap prior to this point. History Over four million French women were working outside the home in non-agricultural labor at the turn of the century, but they lacked representation in the organized reform efforts. The ''Groupe Feministe Socialiste'' hoped to provide a place for representation of working class women. The original manifesto of the ''Groupe Feministe Socialiste'' stated that they wanted to end the "double oppression of women, exploited on a large scale by c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
