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The latest version of HPSS introduces a few new features to the software. The following is an overview of seven features that can be found in HPSS 9.1.0. |
New to HPSS 9.1.0
Fifteen new HPSS Client API based tools
HPSS standalone API tools are available in $HPSS_ROOT/bin. They are named [hpss]
Support Auto Change COS of files during migration
With this feature, HPSS administrators will be able to enable an Automatic Change Class of Service (COS) operation on a per-COS basis. When this new COS flag is turned on, upon disk migration, files within this COS that fall outside the Minimum File Size and Maximum File Size will have their COS changed to a target COS that has the appropriate file size range. Some use cases:
- Site has files that come into their default COS without a file size (e.g. users running non-HPSS ftp client on their desktop).
- Site is using a COS for an HPSSFS FUSE mount point, Enforce Maximum File Size is off, and the file sizes are not within a consistent range.
File-Family Merge Tool to remove files and tapes from a file family
Moves all files and media belonging to one file family to another file family, and removes the original file family.
DB Partition Manager for Rumbler History Tables
This feature provides a database utility that can be used to manage the database partitions for the Rumbler History tables. This utility will add and delete partitions for the Rumbler History Tables, allowing access to a certain amount of historical data.
Client API for aborting I/O
This feature allows I/O to be aborted by client applications. The following commands are available for admin use via scrub:
- abortreq
- abortuser
Set accountID through FTP
The following new PFTP client commands are provided:
- account
- change account of this session to account id - site getacct - display the account associated with this session
- site getacct - display the account associated with the given file
- site setacct
- set the account associated with the given file to account id
Add support for buffered tape marks
HPSS supports buffered tape marks for all supported tape and PVR types. Refer to the 'Storage Class' section of the HPSS Management Guide for more information on buffered tape marks.
HPSS @ STS 2021 The 3nd Annual Storage Technology Showcase is in the planning stage, but HPSS expects to support the event in March of 2021. Check out their web site - Learn More. We expect an update later in 2020. |
HPSS @ ISC21 The 2021 international conference for high performance computing, networking, and storage will be in Frankfurt, Germany from June 27th through July 1st, 2021 - Learn More. Come visit the HPSS folks at the IBM booth and contact us if you would like to schedule a face-to-face meeting with us in Frankfurt. |
2021 HUF The 2021 HPSS User Forum (HUF) is being hosted by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany from September 27th through September 30th, 2021. This is a great place to meet HPSS users, collaboration developers and testers (from IBM and DOE Labs), support folks, and leadership. More details coming soon. |
HPSS @ SC21 - VIRTUAL The 2021 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be in St. Louis, MO from November 15th through 18th, 2021 - Learn More. As we do each year, 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. |
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? |
HUF 2020 - The HPSS User Forum was hosted virtually at no cost in October 2020. |
HPSS 9.1 Release - HPSS 9.1 was released on September 24th, 2020 and introduces a few new features. |
HPSS 8.3 Release - HPSS 8.3 was released on March 31st, 2020 and introduces one new feature and many minor changes. |
HPSS 8.2 Release - HPSS 8.2 was released on December 6th, 2019 and introduces a few new features. |
New Globus DSI - Version 2.9 of the HPSS DSI is now available from the GitHub release page. It provides the capability to resume interrupted Globus transfers. |
Lots Of Data - In November 2019 IBM/HPSS delivered a system to a customer in Canada and demonstrated a sustained tape ingest rate of 11,574 MB/sec (1 PB/day peak tape ingest) while simultaneously demonstrating a sustained tape recall rate of 8,832 MB/sec (791 TB/day peak tape recall). HPSS pushed four 13-frame IBM TS4500 tape libraries (scheduled to house over 500 PB of tape media) to 2,168 mounts/hour. |
HPSS 8.1 Release - HPSS 8.1 was released on October 1st, 2019 and introduces a few new features. |
July 2019 - Argonne Team Breaks Record for Globus Data Movement from the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to HPSS tape. |
Capacity Leader - ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) has a single HPSS namespace with over 537 PB spanning over 385 million files. |
File-Count Leader - LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has a single HPSS namespace with over 61 PB spanning 1.493 billion files. |
Explosive data growth - HPSS Collaboration leadership from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) helped author the "NERSC Storage 2020" report, and NERSC trusts HPSS to meet their immediate and long term data storage challenges. |
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