CCS || HPSS
contact: Buddy Bland
The Problem: The scientific problems of interest to DOE
require creation of realistic
models of physical situations. Realistic models of such challenging
problems generate massive amounts of data -- terabytes (and beyond).
As official respository for a variety of multi-agency data archives (such
as ARM), ORNL has long been involved in addressing the problems of large
dataset storage and retrieval. Recently, ORNL has played a key role in the development
of HPSS, a high speed, parallel, network-centered system for
high performance storage.
ORNL Solutions: The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) was developed through a consortium including the CCS (ORNL), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and IBM Government Systems. HPSS is a very important development, a high speed, parallel, network-centered system that we are now using in production mode in our Paragon environment and which is being used or tested in a variety of environments around the country. We anticipate that HPSS will become the de facto storage system software standard for high performance systems.
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The Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL is bringing the power
of parallel supercomputers, distributed clusters, high performance storage,
networking, and scientific visualization to bear on "Grand Challenge" problems. CCS || HPSS contact: Buddy Bland |