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-We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed
+have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed
 file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault
 tolerance while running on inexpensive commodity hardware, and it delivers high
 aggregate performance to a large number of clients.