PP Presentation
• Focus on scalability
- Ability to add hardware to support parallel I/O and striping across devices and I/O channels (e.g., support of parallel files).- Servers designed for multitasking and multiprocessing (e.g., support concurrent transfers for multiple jobs from workstation clusters, MPP partitions, distributed systems).- Ability to distribute servers.- Scalable capacity to petabyte store, containing millions of directories and thousands of millions of files. - Scalable data transfer to GB/s range.- Ability to support a wide range of storage devices and multiple storage hierarchies.
Characteristics of HPSS