High Performance Storage System |
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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.
HPSS Services :
HPSS User Forum 2022
The 2022 HUF will be held on the following dates: October 24-28 |
Venue
IBM Kurland
12301 Kurland Drive, Suite 300
Houston, TX 77034
Agenda
Red shading indicates topics not open to vendors. |
Monday, October 24
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 24 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Happy hour at Yard House (700 Baybrook Mall Ste D126, Friendswood, TX 77546) |
Tuesday, October 25
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 25 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 25 9:00 am | Welcome Message | Janaye Montero, IBM |
Oct 25 9:15 am | HPSS Executive Committee Outlook | Todd Heer, LLNL |
Oct 25 10:00 am | Presentation Title TBD | Kristy Kallback-Rose, NERSC |
Oct 25 10:15 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 25 10:30 am | Release Roadmap | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 25 11:30 am | Presentation TBD | Speaker TBD |
Oct 25 12:00 pm | JAXA Site Presentation | Fujita Naoyuki, JAXA |
Oct 25 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
Oct 25 1:30 pm | NERSC Site Presentation | Nick Balthaser, NERSC |
Oct 25 2:00 pm | HPSS Recents and Futures | Michael Meseke, IBM |
Oct 25 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break | |
Oct 25 3:30 pm | The Joys and Tribulations of Enterprise Tape Drives | Francis Dequenne, NERSC |
Oct 25 4:00 pm | Site updates: Meteo-France, UTAS (DMF migration), IITM/NCMRWF | Romain Simonin, ATOS |
Oct 25 4:30 pm | Restricted Access and Gatekeeper | Geoff Cleary, LLNL |
Oct 25 5:00 pm | End for the day |
Wednesday, October 26
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 26 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 26 9:00 am | HPSS Cloud Tiering | Benny Wilbanks, IBM |
Oct 26 10:00 am | Deploying HPSS with Ansible, and Running HPSS as hpss (+ a few tools) | Jessica Orban, ECMWF |
Oct 26 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 26 10:45 am | Spectra Logic Presentation, topic TBD | Matt Ninesling, Spectra Logic |
Oct 26 11:30 am | AWS Gateway | Jon Procknow, IBM |
Oct 26 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
Oct 26 1:30 pm | Unified Storage Namespace | Todd Heer, LLNL |
Oct 26 2:00 pm | Starfish Presentation, topic TBD | Jacob Farmer, Starfish |
Oct 26 2:45 pm | IN2P3 Site Status | Pierre-Emmanuel Brinette, IN2P3 |
Oct 26 3:15 pm | Afternoon Break | |
Oct 26 3:45 pm | IU site presentation & migrating to new tape libraries | Charles McClary, IU |
Oct 26 4:15 pm | Reducing HPSS Server Restarts | Greg Thorsness, IBM |
Oct 26 4:45 pm | Support Update | Jae Kerr, IBM |
Oct 26 5:15 pm | End for the day | |
Oct 26 6:30 pm | Dinner at Perry's & Sons (614 S Friendswood Dr, Friendswood, TX 77546) |
Thursday, October 27
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 27 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 27 9:00 am | Purdue - update on our state of the archive | Ramon Williamson, Purdue |
Oct 27 9:30 am | SNL Site Update | Mike Martinez, SNL |
Oct 27 10:00 am | Automated Repacking Tool Sati | Thibault Gainche, ATOS |
Oct 27 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 27 10:45 am | IBM Tape, tape drives | Randy Fleenor, IBM |
Oct 27 11:30 am | HSI/HTAR as a microservice | Speaker TBD |
Oct 27 12:00 pm | Tapes database tool and MPCDF site presentation | Manuel Panea, MPCDF |
Oct 27 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
Oct 27 1:30 pm | RESTful SSM | Speaker TBD |
Oct 27 2:00 pm | Birds of a Feather Sessions | All |
Oct 27 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break | |
Oct 27 3:30 pm | IBM Tape, tape technologies | Randy Fleenor, IBM |
Oct 27 4:15 pm | Developer Round Table | HPSS Developers |
Oct 27 5:00 pm | End for the day |
Friday, October 28
Date Times (CDT) | Presentation/Event Title | Presenter, Org. |
Oct 28 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
Oct 28 9:00 am | Closing Message | Janaye Montero, IBM |
Oct 28 9:15 am | ASan RPMs | Geoff Cleary, LLNL |
Oct 28 9:45 am | Visualization and Monitoring in HPSS | Greg Thorsness, IBM Jenny Poling, IBM |
Oct 28 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
Oct 28 10:45 am | Test Team Update | Janaye Montero, IBM |
Oct 28 11:15 am | Burning Issues | Jon Procknow, IBM |
Oct 28 12:15 pm | End for the day |
Come meet with us!
HPSS @ MSST 2023 The 37th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology will be in Santa Clara, California in May of 2023 - 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 @ ISC 2023 ISC 2023 is the event for high performance computing, machine learning, and data analytics, and will be in Hamburg, Germany from May 21st through May 25th, 2023 - Learn More. As we have done each year (pre-pandemic), we are scheduling and meeting with folks attending the conference. Please contact us meet with the IBM business and technical leaders of HPSS. |
2023 HUF The 2023 HPSS User Forum (HUF) will be an in-person event scheduled October 23-27, 2023, in Tucson, AZ or perhaps Washington, DC. Please check back for registration details. This will be a great opportunity to hear from HPSS users, collaboration developers, testers, support folks and leadership (from IBM and DOE Labs). Please contact us if you are not a customer but would like to attend. |
HPSS @ SC23 The 2023 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be in Denver, CO from November 12th through 17th, 2023 - Learn More. As we have each year (pre-pandemic), 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. |
HPSS @ STS 2024 The 5th Annual Storage Technology Showcase is in the planning phase, but HPSS expects to support the event. Check out their web site - Learn More. |
What's New?
HPSS 10.2 Release - HPSS 10.2 was released on February 16th, 2023 and introduces six new features and numerous minor updates. |
Celebrating 30 Years - 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) Collaboration. |
HPSS 10.1 Release - HPSS 10.1 was released on September 30th, 2022 and introduces fourteen new features and numerous minor updates. |
Lots of Data - In March 2022, IBM/HPSS delivered a storage solution to a customer in Canada, and demonstrated a sustained tape ingest rate of 33 GB/sec (2.86 PB/day peak tape ingest x 2 for dual copy), while simultaneously demonstrating a sustained tape recall rate of 24 GB/sec (2.0 PB/day peak tape recall). HPSS pushed six 18-frame IBM TS4500 tape libraries (scheduled to house over 1.6 Exabytes of tape media) to over 3,000 mounts/hour. |
HPSS 9.3 Release - HPSS 9.3 was released on December 14th, 2021 and introduces eight new features and numerous minor updates. |
HUF 2021 - The HPSS User Forum was hosted virtually at no cost in October 2021. |
DOE Announces HPSS Milestone - Todd Heer, Deputy Program Lead, Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Facilities, Operations, and User Support (FOUS), announced that DOE High Performance Storage Systems (HPSS) eclipse one exabyte in stored data. |
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? |
HPSS 9.2 Release - HPSS 9.2 was released on May 11th, 2021 and introduces eight new features and numerous minor updates. |
Capacity Leader - ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) has a single HPSS namespace with over 778 PB spanning over 523 million files. |
File-Count Leader - LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) has a single HPSS namespace with over 77 PB spanning 1.735 billion files. |
Older News - Want to read more? |