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NCAR Mass Storage System holds more than 300 TB of data

Record growth of data in December related to high utilization of blackforest

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NCAR Mass Storage System

On 02 January 2001, the NCAR MSS surpassed 300 terabytes (TB) of unique bytes stored. The total bytes stored is much higher due to duplicate copies of most files. The 300 TB level was reached momentarily on 30 December, but the next-day purge run dropped the level back below 300 TB. Two days later, however, the 300 TB level was reached again.

The net growth in December 2000 was 10 TB, the greatest single monthly net growth in the history of the MSS and twice the previous average monthly net growth. The record growth appears to be related to the high utilization on blackforest, the IBM SP RS/6000.

The SCD High Performance Systems Section supports and maintains NCAR's MSS.

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