HPSS
Contact: hpss.support@cern.ch
Site: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/hpss
Input from: David Asbury, Harry Renshall
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Stands for High Performance Storage System
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Part of HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) together with CASTOR
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30 TBytes of data presently managed with HPSS
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Application domains:
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storage of large individual user data files
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real time raw data acquisition for the NA57 experiment
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several testbeams and bulk storage of temporary (scratch) data for various
experiment mock data challenges
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HEPiX Autumn 2000