High Performance Storage System
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| Developer(s) | IBM in conjunction with DOE National Labs |
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| Stable release | 7.3.3 patch 4
/ March 2012 |
| Operating system | cross-platform |
| Type | Hierarchical Storage Management |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | hpss-collaboration |
High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a flexible, scalable, policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management product developed by IBM in collaboration with five DOE National Labs (LLNL, LANL, LBNL, ORNL, SNL). HPSS enables a user to use 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.[1]
The 7.1 and 7.3 releases of HPSS have full support on AIX and Linux. The HPSS data mover and client API are supported on AIX, Linux, and Solaris.[1]
HPSS supports a variety of methods for accessing and creating data. Among them are support for FTP, parallel FTP, VFS (Linux), as well as a robust client API with support for parallel I/O.
Notable achievements
- Two of the larger HPSS sites, LANL and LLNL had 13 and 11.7 Petabytes of data stored within a single HPSS instance and namespace as of October 13, 2008.[2]
- On November 14, 2007, the San Diego Supercomputer Center along with IBM, DataDirect, and Brocade demonstrated a "Billion File" test which successfully backed up a billion files from GPFS into HPSS.[3]
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