Yes and no. In AFS storage space is organized in units that are called "volumes". The volumes are hosted by one or several servers and mounted somewhere in the /afs/<yourcell>/.... hierarchy. For the client it does not matter at all, where a volume is located and therefore one could argue that you could use those 100 workstations as servers and get a overall capacity of 500 GB in your /afs hierarchy.
But you won't get a contiguous file space where you could store a 500 GB file. In your case the maximum file size is limited by the size of the corresponding volume, which is limited by the partition size of the server. Was this explanation understandable? Right now I don't know how to explain it better... And aside from the above, it is not really desireable to have that many servers that all need to be managed. Regards, Carsten
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