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Acceptance testing of the Blue Waters near-line system stressed data sizes,
volumes, and rates projected to occur during the third and fifth year of the
project to verify the system would meet its fifth year requirements and goals.
The NCSA HPSS near-line system achieved on average 3,538 creates per sec-
ond (212,280 transactions per minute), which exceeds Blue Waters projected
year 6 workload. Blue Waters’ final test was to put the system under a 24-
hour system load test. During normal operations of media repacks and other
normal operations tasks, the near-line system wrote 9.8 million files and read ...