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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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8.3.0 User's Guide
PDF Version (8 1/2 x 11 paper, 1.1MB)
8.3.0 Programmer's Reference
PDF Version (8 1/2 x 11 paper, 1.7MB)
HSI
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8.3 Reference Manual
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2020 HUF - VIRTUAL The 2020 HPSS User Forum (HUF) will be hosted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be hosted online for six days spread across three weeks in October 2020 with no admission cost. This will be a great opportunity to hear from HPSS users, collaboration developers, testers, support folks and leadership (from IBM and DOE Labs) - Learn More. Please contact us if you are not a customer but would like to attend. |
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HPSS @ MSST 2020 - POSTPONED The 36th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology will be in Santa Clara, California sometime in October 2020. The increased-awareness of COVID-19 has caused the planners to slip the scheduled event from May 2020 to October 2020 - Learn More. Please contact us if you would like to meet with us in Santa Clara. |
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HPSS @ SC20 The 2020 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be in Atlanta, Georgia from November 16th through 19th, 2020 - 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 Atlanta. |
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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. Checkout their web site - Learn More. We expect an update later in 2020. |
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HPSS @ ISC21 The 2021 international conference for high performance computing, networking, and storage will be in Frankfurt, Germany from June 27st 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. |
| HUF 2020 - The HPSS User Forum will be hosted virtually at no cost in October 2020. |
| HPSS 8.3 Release - HPSS 8.3 was released on March 31st, 2020 and introduces a new features. |
| 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 479 PB spanning 331 million files. |
| File-Count Leader - LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has a single HPSS namespace with 57 PB spanning 1.424 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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