Scalable Capacity
As architects continue to exploit hierarchical storage systems to scale critical data stores beyond a petabyte (1015 bytes) towards an exabyte (1000 petabytes), there is a equally critical need to deploy a high performance, reliable and scalable HSM.
Highlights
Who developed HPSS?
HPSS is the result of over a decade of collaboration among five Department of Energy laboratories and IBM, with significant contributions by universities and other laboratories worldwide.
What do HPSS users store?
HPSS provides storage management for a diverse set of digital library, science, engineering and defense applications and safeguards a range of data including nanotechnology, genomics...
Who has a petabyte or more?
These HPSS Collaboration Members' sites have accumulated a petabyte or more of data, in a single HPSS file system. Some have passed fifteen petabytes, heading for twenty.
What is High Performance Storage System?
HPSS is software that manages petabytes of data on disk and robotic tape libraries. HPSS provides highly flexible and scalable hierarchical storage management that keeps recently used data on disk and less recently used data on tape. HPSS uses cluster, LAN and/or SAN technology to aggregate the capacity and performance of many computers, disks, and tape drives into a single virtual file system of exceptional size and versatility. This approach enables HPSS to easily meet otherwise unachievable demands of total storage capacity, file sizes, data rates, and number of objects stored.
What's New?
| 2010 HPSS Users Forum - The date for the 2010 HPSS Users Forum (HUF) has been set for September 27-29. The conference will be held at DKRZ (German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research), located in Hamburg, Germany. The conference will extend to a full 3 days to accommodate the growing list of subjects and materials to be presented. Additional information about the HUF including logistics, accommodations, and how one can participate in the conference will be communicated over the next few weeks and months. We are excited about the 2010 HUF and are grateful to DKRZ for their willingness to host this event for the HPSS community. |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Data Storage Archive - The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national scientific user facility, has awarded a competitive contract for a Data Storage Archive to IBM Global Business Services - Business Consulting Group. EMSL, located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, provides integrated experimental and computational resources for discovery and technological innovation in the environmental molecular sciences to support the needs of DOE and the nation. |
| Library of Congress: Data Storage Archive - The Library of Congress Data Storage Archive has purchased High Performance Storage System (HPSS) from the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract. HPSS will replace an existing EMC DXUL archive. |
