High Performance Storage System
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| Developed by | IBM in conjunction with DOE National Labs |
| Latest release | 6.2.2.2 / March 2008 |
| OS | cross-platform |
| Genre | 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 6.2 release of HPSS (Core Server) is supported on AIX and Linux. The HPSS Mover and Client API are supported on AIX, Linux, IRIX, 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.
[edit] Notable Achievements
- Two of the larger HPSS sites, LANL and ECMWF had 11 and 8.5 Petabytes of data stored within a single HPSS instance and namespace as of September 9, 2007.[2]
- On November 14, 2007, 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]
