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Appendix C Developer
Acknowledgments
HPSS is a product of a government-industry collaboration. The project approach is based on the
premisethat nosingle company, government laboratory, or researchorganizationhas theability to
confront all of the system-level issues that must be resolved for significant advancement in high-
performance storage system technology.
HPSS development was performed jointly by IBM Worldwide Government Industry, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, NASALangley Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National
Laboratories.
Wewould liketoacknowledge ArgonneNationalLaboratory,theNational CenterforAtmospheric
Research, and Pacific Northwest Laboratory for their help with initial requirements reviews.
WealsowishtoacknowledgeCornellInformationTechnologiesofCornellUniversityforproviding
assistance with naming service and transaction management evaluations and for joint
developments of the Name Server component.
We also wish to acknowledge the many discussions, design ideas, implementation and operation
experiences we have shared with colleagues at the National Storage Laboratory, the IEEE Mass
Storage Systems and Technology Technical Committee, the IEEE Storage System Standards
Working Group, and the storage community at large.
We also wish to acknowledge the Cornell Theory Center and the Maui High Performance
Computer Center for providing a test beds for the initial HPSS release.
Finally, we wish to acknowledge CEA-DAM (Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique - Centre
d’Études Bruyères-le-Châtel) for providing assistance with development of NFS V3 protocol
support.