High Performance Storage System

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.

Incremental Scalability

Performance & Efficiency

Availability & Durability

Delivery & Support

HPSS Documentation : User Documentation

Online Documents

The following HPSS User Documentation is for the current release of HPSS. Customers have access to older versions of these documents on the HPSS Administrator Wiki.

HPSS User's Guide
This manual discusses information that HPSS users need in order to make proper use of the deployment. It explains the storage concepts of HPSS and documents the user interfaces and utilities (e.g., ftp, lshpss, etc.).

HPSS Programmer's Reference Guide
This manual is a programmer's reference to the HPSS Client APIs. These include the Client API, PIO, and others.

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7.5.1.2 User's Guide

PDF Version (8 1/2 x 11 paper, 242KB)

7.5.1.2 Programmer's Reference

PDF Version (8 1/2 x 11 paper, 3.8MB)

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HPSS @ MSST 2018
The 34th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology will be in Santa Clara, California from May 14th through May 18th, 2018 - 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 @ ISC18
The 2018 international conference for high performance computing, networking, and storage will be in Frankfurt, Germany from June 24th through 28th, 2018 - Learn More. Come visit the HPSS folks at the IBM booth and contact us if you would like to meet with the IBM business and technical leaders of HPSS in Frankfurt.

2018 HUF
The 2018 HPSS User Forum will be hosted by the UK Met Office in Exeter, United Kingdom from October 15th through October 18th, 2018. Please contact us if you would like to meet with the HPSS Collaboration leaders, HPSS Collaboration developers, architects, system engineers, support staff, project managers, and many of the HPSS customers.

The 2018 HUF information and registration web site is coming soon.

HPSS @ SC18
The 2018 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be in Dallas, Texas from November 11th through 15th, 2018 - Learn More. Come visit the HPSS folks at the IBM booth and contact us if you would like to meet with the IBM business and technical leaders of HPSS in Dallas.

What's New?

HPSS Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Statement - Learn More.

HPSS Vendor Partnership Grows - HPSS begins Quantum Scalar i6000 tape library testing in 2018. Other HPSS tape vendor partners include IBM, Oracle, and Spectra Logic.

Swift On HPSS - Leverage OpenStack Swift to provide an object interface to data in HPSS. Directories of files and containers of objects can be accessed and shared across ALL interfaces with this OpenStack Swift Object Server implementation - Contact Us for more information, or Download Now.

Capacity Leader - ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) has a single HPSS namespace with 360 PB spanning 328 million files.

File-Count Leader - LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has a single HPSS namespace with 41 PB spanning 1.084 billion files.

RAIT - Oak Ridge National Laboratory cut redundant tape cost-estimates by 75% with 4+P HPSS RAIT (tape stripe with rotating parity) and enjoy large file tape transfers beyond 1 GB/s.

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