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HSI

HSI, the Hierarchical Storage Interface, is the preferred method of transferring files to and from Fortress. HSI is designed to be a friendly interface for users of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS). It provides a familiar Unix-style environment for working within HPSS while automatically taking advantage of high-speed, parallel file transfers without requiring any special user knowledge.

HSI is provided on all research systems as the command hsi. HSI is also available for download for many operating systems.

Interactive usage:

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$ hsi

*************************************************************************
*                    Purdue University
*                  High Performance Storage System (HPSS)
*************************************************************************
* This is the Purdue Data Archive, Fortress.  For further information
* see http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/storage/fortress/
*
*   If you are having problems with HPSS, please call IT/Operational
*   Services at 49-44000 or send E-mail to rcac-help@purdue.edu.
*
*************************************************************************
Username: username  UID: 12345  Acct: 12345(12345) Copies: 1 Firewall: off [hsi.3.5.8 Wed Sep 21 17:31:14 EDT 2011]

[Fortress HSI]/home/username->put data1.fits
put  'test' : '/home/username/test' ( 1024000000 bytes, 250138.1 KBS (cos=11))

[Fortress HSI]/home/username->lcd /tmp

[Fortress HSI]/home/username->get data1.fits
get  '/tmp/data1.fits' : '/home/username/data1.fits' (2011/10/04 16:28:50 1024000000 bytes, 325844.9 KBS )

[Fortress HSI]/home/username->quit

Batch transfer file:

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put data1.fits
put data2.fits
put data3.fits
put data4.fits
put data5.fits
put data6.fits
put data7.fits
put data8.fits
put data9.fits

Batch usage:

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$ hsi < my_batch_transfer_file
*************************************************************************
*                    Purdue University
*                  High Performance Storage System (HPSS)
*************************************************************************
* This is the Purdue Data Archive, Fortress.  For further information
* see http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/storage/fortress/
*
*   If you are having problems with HPSS, please call IT/Operational
*   Services at 49-44000 or send E-mail to rcac-help@purdue.edu.
*
*************************************************************************
Username: username  UID: 12345  Acct: 12345(12345) Copies: 1 Firewall: off [hsi.3.5.8 Wed Sep 21 17:31:14 EDT 2011]
put  'data1.fits' : '/home/username/data1.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 250200.7 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data2.fits' : '/home/username/data2.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 258893.4 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data3.fits' : '/home/username/data3.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 222819.7 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data4.fits' : '/home/username/data4.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 224311.9 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data5.fits' : '/home/username/data5.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 323707.3 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data6.fits' : '/home/username/data6.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 320322.9 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data7.fits' : '/home/username/data7.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 253192.6 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data8.fits' : '/home/username/data8.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 253056.2 KBS (cos=11))
put  'data9.fits' : '/home/username/data9.fits' ( 1024000000 bytes, 323218.9 KBS (cos=11))
EOF detected on TTY - ending HSI session

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