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Based on storage needs and deployment schedules, HPSS scales incrementally by adding computer, network and storage resources. A single HPSS namespace can scale from petabytes of data to exabytes of data, from millions of files to billions of files, and from a few file-creates per second to thousands of file-creates per second.
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These are the publicly disclosed HPSS deployments that have accumulated a petabyte or more of data. Each entry represents a single instance of HPSS; the capacity numbers for a single HPSS namespace.


Publicaly Disclosed HPSS Deployments Listed by Capacity with File Counts

Sites - 2Q2023
Petabytes
M Files
Since
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
824
556
2002
United Kingdom Met Office
604
1408
2009
Shared Services Canada
560
49
2017
Meteo France - French Weather and Climate
527
937
2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research & Development
331
116
2002
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - User
312
248
1998
Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
257
111
2011
Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique - Tera Project
230
41
1999
Brookhaven National Laboratory
229
228
1998
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
179
758
1997
Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules
136
121
1999
Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique - Très Grand Centre de calcul
135
33
2010
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Secure
121
1185
1997
Argonne National Laboratory
116
1186
2008
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Secure
116
1661
1998
Deutscher Wetterdienst
109
38
2011
Indiana University
99
256
1999
Purdue University
82
630
2011
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
81
389
2015
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Open
78
1746
1997
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
77
300
2009
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
75
18
1999
SciNet HPC Consortium
51
64
2011
High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
51
12
2008
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
40
112
2001
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
38
167
2010
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Backup
33
20
1997
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
27
32
2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
25
1195
2014
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
20
213
2020
NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center
16
61
2018
NASA Langley Research Center
13
47
1998
Sandia National Laboratory - Open
12
287
1996
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Open
12
211
1997
India's National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
10
260
2020
Sandia National Laboratory - Secure
9
144
1996
National Center for Environmental Information
7
126
1998
University of Tasmania Research Data Management System
5
71
2020
Nasjonalbiblioteket - National Library of Norway
1
3
2022

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2023 HUF
The 2023 HPSS User Forum (HUF) will be an in-person event scheduled October 30th through November 3rd, 2023, in Herndon, VA. This will be a great opportunity to hear from HPSS users, collaboration developers, testers, support folks and leadership (from IBM and DOE Labs). Would you like to Learn More? Please contact us if you are not a customer but would like to attend.

HPSS @ SC23
The 2023 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be in Denver, CO from November 12th through 17th, 2023 - Learn More. As we have each year (pre-pandemic), we are scheduling and meeting with customers via IBM Single Client Briefings. Please contact your local IBM client executive or contact us to schedule a HPSS Single Client Briefing to meet with the IBM business and technical leaders of HPSS.

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ISC 2024 is the event for high performance computing, machine learning, and data analytics, and will be in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center Hamburg, from May 12th through May 16th, 2024 - Learn More. As we have done each year (pre-pandemic), we are scheduling and meeting with folks attending the conference. Please contact us meet with the IBM business and technical leaders of HPSS.

What's New?
HPSS 10.2 Release - HPSS 10.2 was released on February 16th, 2023 and introduces six new features and numerous minor updates.

HUF 2022 - The HPSS User Forum was hosted by IBM Houston in October 2021, at their IBM Houston Kurland building.

Celebrating 30 Years - Fall 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) Collaboration.

HPSS 10.1 Release - HPSS 10.1 was released on September 30th, 2022 and introduces fourteen new features and numerous minor updates.

Lots of Data - In March 2022, IBM/HPSS delivered a storage solution to a customer in Canada, and demonstrated a sustained tape ingest rate of 33 GB/sec (2.86 PB/day peak tape ingest x 2 for dual copy), while simultaneously demonstrating a sustained tape recall rate of 24 GB/sec (2.0 PB/day peak tape recall). HPSS pushed six 18-frame IBM TS4500 tape libraries (scheduled to house over 1.6 Exabytes of tape media) to over 3,000 mounts/hour.

DOE Announces HPSS Milestone - Todd Heer, Deputy Program Lead, Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Facilities, Operations, and User Support (FOUS), announced that DOE High Performance Storage Systems (HPSS) eclipse one exabyte in stored data.

Atos Press Release - Atos boosts Météo-France’s data storage capacity to over 1 exabyte in 2025 to improve numerical modeling and climate predictions. Want to read more?

Capacity Leader - ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) has a single HPSS namespace with over 824 PB spanning over 556 million files.

File-Count Leader - LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has a single HPSS namespace with over 78 PB spanning 1.746 billion files.

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