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Typical applications or use cases include search engines, email, animation and rendering, scientific simulations, and engineering. HPC environments demand reliable large storage capacity with a big bandwidth for transfers and concurrent access to a large number of files by many users and applications. Also, as the main or secondary storage is centralized, for example, when used as a home directory this allows to have a lean local storage on client nodes. NFS is also a great choice for most environments using virtual machines or containers, as VMs and containers are essentially files.