High Performance Storage System |
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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.
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HPSS User Forum 2022
The 2022 HUF will be held on the following dates: October 24-28 |
Venue
IBM Kurland
12301 Kurland Drive, Suite 300
Houston, TX 77034
Agenda
Red shading indicates topics not open to vendors. |
Monday, October 24
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 24 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Happy hour at Yard House (700 Baybrook Mall Ste D126, Friendswood, TX 77546) |
Tuesday, October 25
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 25 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 25 9:00 am | Welcome Message | Janaye Montero, IBM |
Oct 25 9:15 am | HPSS Executive Committee Outlook | Todd Heer, LLNL |
Oct 25 10:00 am | Presentation Title TBD | Kristy Kallback-Rose, NERSC |
Oct 25 10:15 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 25 10:30 am | Release Roadmap | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 25 11:30 am | Presentation TBD | Speaker TBD |
Oct 25 12:00 pm | JAXA Site Presentation | Fujita Naoyuki, JAXA |
Oct 25 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
Oct 25 1:30 pm | NERSC Site Presentation | Nick Balthaser, NERSC |
Oct 25 2:00 pm | HPSS Recents and Futures | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 25 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break | |
Oct 25 3:30 pm | The Joys and Tribulations of Enterprise Tape Drives | Francis Dequenne, NERSC |
Oct 25 4:00 pm | Site updates: Meteo-France, UTAS (DMF migration), IITM/NCMRWF | Romain Simonin, ATOS |
Oct 25 4:30 pm | Restricted Access and Gatekeeper | Geoff Cleary, LLNL |
Oct 25 5:00 pm | End for the day |
Wednesday, October 26
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 26 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 26 9:00 am | HPSS Cloud Tiering | Benny Wilbanks, IBM |
Oct 26 10:00 am | Deploying HPSS with Ansible, and Running HPSS as hpss (+ a few tools) | Jessica Orban, ECMWF |
Oct 26 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 26 10:45 am | Spectra Logic Presentation, topic TBD | Matt Ninesling, Spectra Logic |
Oct 26 11:30 am | AWS Gateway | Jon Procknow, IBM |
Oct 26 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
Oct 26 1:30 pm | Unified Storage Namespace | Todd Heer, LLNL |
Oct 26 2:00 pm | Starfish Presentation, topic TBD | Jacob Farmer, Starfish |
Oct 26 2:45 pm | IN2P3 Site Status | Pierre-Emmanuel Brinette, IN2P3 |
Oct 26 3:15 pm | Afternoon Break | |
Oct 26 3:45 pm | IU site presentation & migrating to new tape libraries | Charles McClary, IU |
Oct 26 4:15 pm | Reducing HPSS Server Restarts | Greg Thorsness, IBM |
Oct 26 4:45 pm | Support Update | Jae Kerr, IBM |
Oct 26 5:15 pm | End for the day | |
Oct 26 6:30 pm | Dinner at Perry's & Sons (614 S Friendswood Dr, Friendswood, TX 77546) |
Thursday, October 27
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 27 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 27 9:00 am | Purdue - update on our state of the archive | Ramon Williamson, Purdue |
Oct 27 9:30 am | SNL Site Update | Mike Martinez, SNL |
Oct 27 10:00 am | Automated Repacking Tool Sati | Thibault Gainche, ATOS |
Oct 27 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 27 10:45 am | IBM Tape, tape drives | Randy Fleenor, IBM |
Oct 27 11:30 am | HSI/HTAR as a microservice | Speaker TBD |
Oct 27 12:00 pm | Tapes database tool and MPCDF site presentation | Manuel Panea, MPCDF |
Oct 27 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
Oct 27 1:30 pm | RESTful SSM | Speaker TBD |
Oct 27 2:00 pm | Birds of a Feather Sessions | All |
Oct 27 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break | |
Oct 27 3:30 pm | IBM Tape, tape technologies | Randy Fleenor, IBM |
Oct 27 4:15 pm | Developer Round Table | HPSS Developers |
Oct 27 5:00 pm | End for the day |
Friday, October 28
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 28 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 28 9:00 am | Closing Message | Janaye Montero, IBM |
Oct 28 9:15 am | ASan RPMs | Geoff Cleary, LLNL |
Oct 28 9:45 am | Visualization and Monitoring in HPSS | Greg Thorsness, IBM Jenny Poling, IBM |
Oct 28 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 28 10:45 am | Test Team Update | Janaye Montero, IBM |
Oct 28 11:15 am | Burning Issues | Jon Procknow, IBM |
Oct 28 12:15 pm | End for the day |
Come meet with us!
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. |
HPSS @ STS 2024 The 5th Annual Storage Technology Showcase is in the planning phase, but HPSS expects to support the event. Check out their web site - Learn More. |
HPSS @ MSST 2024 The 38th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology will be in Santa Clara, California in May of 2024 - 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 2024 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. |
Older News - Want to read more? |