Manages petabytes of data. (computer storage systems)

The Energy Dept.'s Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and IBM Global Government Industry researchers have developed a so-called High performance Storage System. This computer storage system can manage and transfer petabytes or huge packets of data.

The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) consists of open-system software designed to manage petabytes ([10.sup.15] bytes) of data used in modern high- performance computing applications including imaging, data collection, and analysis. Data transfer rates for HPSS are in the gigabyte/sec range and beyond. The system was developed jointly by teams from DOE's Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore (Calif.) National Laboratory; Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory;...

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