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Incremental Scalability
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.
About HPSS :
Our Publicaly Disclosed Deployments
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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
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(ECMWF) European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | |
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(UKMO) United Kingdom Met Office | |
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(SSC) Shared Services Canada | |
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(Meteo-France) Meteo France - French Weather and Climate | |
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(NOAA-RD) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research & Development | |
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(LBNL-User) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - User | |
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(MPCDF) Max Planck Computing and Data Facility | |
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(BNL) Brookhaven National Laboratory | |
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(CEA TERA) Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique - Tera Project | |
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(ORNL) Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
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(CEA TGCC) Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique - Très Grand Centre de calcul | |
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(IN2P3) Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules | |
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(LANL-Secure) Los Alamos National Laboratory - Secure | |
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(LLNL-Secure) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Secure | |
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(IU) Indiana University | |
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(ANL) Argonne National Laboratory | |
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(DWD) Deutscher Wetterdienst | |
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(Purdue) Purdue University | |
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(LLNL-Open) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Open | |
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(SLAC) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | |
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(JAXA) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | |
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(KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | |
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(HLRS) High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart | |
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(SciNet) SciNet HPC Consortium | |
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(KEK) High Energy Accelerator Research Organization | |
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(PNNL) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
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(LBNL-Backup) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Backup | |
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(CNES) Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales | |
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(NOAA-C Asheville) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System - Asheville | |
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(IITM) Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology | |
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(ASDC) NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center | |
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(LaRC) NASA Langley Research Center | |
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(NCMRWF) India's National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting | |
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(LANL-Open) Los Alamos National Laboratory - Open | |
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(SNL-Open) Sandia National Laboratory - Open | |
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(SNL-Secure) Sandia National Laboratory - Secure | |
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(NCEI) National Center for Environmental Information | |
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(UTAS) University of Tasmania Research Data Management System | |
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(NB) Nasjonalbiblioteket - National Library of Norway | |
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The World of HPSS

Come meet with us!
2022 HUF The 2022 HPSS User Forum (HUF) will be an in-person event scheduled October 24-28, 2022, in Houston, TX. Please check back for registration details. This will be a great opportunity to hear from HPSS users, collaboration developers, testers, support folks and leadership (from IBM and DOE Labs). Please contact us if you are not a customer but would like to attend. |
HPSS @ SC22 The 2022 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be in Dallas, TX from November 14th through 17th, 2022 - 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. |
HPSS @ STS 2023 The 4th Annual Storage Technology Showcase has been postponed, but HPSS expects to support the event when it returns. Check out their web site - Learn More. |
HPSS @ MSST 2023 The 37th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology will be in Santa Clara, California in May of 2023 - Learn More. Please contact us if you would like to meet with the IBM business and technical leaders of HPSS at Santa Clara University. |
HPSS @ ISC 2023 ISC 2023 is the event for high performance computing, machine learning, and data analytics, and will be in Hamburg, Germany from May 21st through May 25th, 2023 - 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?
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. |
Older News - Want to read more? |