Atos Launched Bull Director for High Performance Storage System

Atos SE launches Bull Director for HPSS, a component of the future range of Bull Data Management software dedicated to HPC.

Director for HPSS optimizes current large scale storage solutions and frees up compute time for users.

This launch confirms company’s strategic commitment to develop innovative solutions for HPC and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA). The beta version of Director for HPSS is revealed at the SC16 Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, the HPC event in that takes place November 14-17.

Director for HPSS includes following features:

It is an ad-on to HPSS that brings performance and ease of management to the next level.
It improves the global performance of HPSS for tape libraries, in an environment with many concurrent access requests, by grouping simultaneous requests from different users in real time.
It sorts all file recalls dynamically and transparently, and queues them according to their position on tapes, thus massively decreasing tape mounts and tape movements. This improves drastically HPSS performance when massive file recalls are the norm.

As data sets with hundreds of terabytes or many petabytes of data become increasingly common-place, HSM becomes a cornerstone of intensive data management systems. HSM is a storage technique that automatically moves data between high-performance/high-cost storage devices and low-end/low-cost storage devices. To optimize costs, HSM systems store the bulk of data on slow, economical devices such as robotic tape libraries, and copy data to faster disk drives whenever they are needed for processing.

HPSS (High Performance Storage System) is an HSM system born from a Collaboration between IBM Global Business Services and five American DOE laboratories, augmented lately by the French CEA/DAM.

“In a context of data explosion, storage is often a bottleneck and has a negative impact on application performance. Atos has a long experience of implementing HPSS in challenging environments where long-term data preservation and re-use of massive data sets are key. Our ultimate objective with Bull Director for HPSS and the other future components is to get rid of these bottlenecks and free up compute time for users.” explains Eric Eppe, head, products and solutions for extreme computing, Atos.

Director for HPSS V1.0 will be available in December 2016.

Director for HPSS V1.1 with HPSS Tape Order Recall (TOR) support will be available in 1Q07.