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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 - 4Q2022
Petabytes
M Files
Since
(ECMWF) European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
739
493
2002
(UKMO) United Kingdom Met Office
563
1,290
2009
(SSC) Shared Services Canada
475
44
2017
(Meteo-France) Meteo France - French Weather and Climate
440
840
2015
(NOAA-RD) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research & Development
308
115
2002
(LBNL-User) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - User
289
244
1998
(MPCDF) Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
240
108
2011
(BNL) Brookhaven National Laboratory
221
223
1998
(CEA TERA) Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique - Tera Project
204
40
1999
(ORNL) Oak Ridge National Laboratory
170
671
1997
(CEA TGCC) Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique - Très Grand Centre de calcul
130
33
2010
(IN2P3) Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules
124
115
1999
(LANL-Secure) Los Alamos National Laboratory - Secure
116
1,137
1997
(LLNL-Secure) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Secure
111
1,557
1998
(IU) Indiana University
107
251
1999
(ANL) Argonne National Laboratory
101
1,098
2008
(DWD) Deutscher Wetterdienst
93
36
2011
(Purdue) Purdue University
78
576
2011
(LLNL-Open) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Open
76
1,699
1997
(SLAC) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
70
18
1999
(JAXA) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
70
289
2009
(KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
62
368
2015
(HLRS) High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
54
13
2008
(SciNet) SciNet HPC Consortium
48
62
2011
(KEK) High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
44
100
2001
(PNNL) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
36
165
2010
(LBNL-Backup) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Backup
33
20
1997
(CNES) Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
27
32
2015
(NOAA-C Asheville) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System - Asheville
24
1,096
2014
(IITM) Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
19
190
2020
(ASDC) NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center
16
59
2018
(LaRC) NASA Langley Research Center
13
49
1998
(NCMRWF) India's National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
12
261
2020
(LANL-Open) Los Alamos National Laboratory - Open
12
203
1997
(SNL-Open) Sandia National Laboratory - Open
11
180
1996
(SNL-Secure) Sandia National Laboratory - Secure
8
103
1996
(NCEI) National Center for Environmental Information
7
124
1998
(UTAS) University of Tasmania Research Data Management System
5
67
2020
(NB) Nasjonalbiblioteket - National Library of Norway
0.5
0.8
2022

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What's New?
Celebrating 30 Years - 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.

HPSS 9.3 Release - HPSS 9.3 was released on December 14th, 2021 and introduces eight new features and numerous minor updates.

HUF 2021 - The HPSS User Forum was hosted virtually at no cost in October 2021.

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?

HPSS 9.2 Release - HPSS 9.2 was released on May 11th, 2021 and introduces eight new features and numerous minor updates.

Capacity Leader - ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) has a single HPSS namespace with over 739 PB spanning over 493 million files.

File-Count Leader - LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has a single HPSS namespace with over 76 PB spanning 1.699 billion files.

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  • ORNL
  • Sandia
  • IBM
  • ANL
  • Boeing
  • BNL
  • CEA
  • CNES
  • DWD
  • ECMWF
  • PNNL EMSL
  • HLRS
  • IU
  • IITM
  • IN2P3
  • JAXA
  • KEK
  • KIT
  • Met Office
  • MPCDF
  • Meteo France
  • NASA ASDC
  • NASA LaRC
  • Nasjonalbiblioteket
  • NCMRWF
  • NOAA CLASS
  • NOAA NCEI
  • NOAA R&D
  • Purdue
  • SciNet
  • SSC
  • SLAC
  • UTAS
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