High Performance Storage System (HPSS)

November 8, 2016 in for_researchers, for_users, Systems, Uncategorized


The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a tape-backed hierarchical storage system that provides a significant portion of the allocated storage space at SciNet. It is a repository for archiving data that is not being actively used. Data can be returned to the active filesystem on the compute clusters when it is needed.

SciNet’s HPSS currently has nearly 90 PB of capacity.

For more information, see the technical documentation on the SciNet wiki