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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.
HSI Reference Manual
This is an HSI command reference guide. This includes
synopsis, description, aliases, options, keywords,
usage notes, examples, and other related commands.
HPSS
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9.1.0 User's Guide
PDF Version (8 1/2 x 11 paper, 256KB)
9.1.0 Programmer's Reference
PDF Version (8 1/2 x 11 paper, 1.8MB)
HSI
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9.1 Reference Manual
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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