A number of Probe projects may be conducted in parallel using various configurations of equipment. There should be no distance limitation between HPSS servers.
Proof of principle is complete.
Development is complete but life-cycle testing continues. Reports are under development. Subsequent tuning of both DBMS products was performed on Probe equipment by Oracle and IBM staff in collaboration with HPSS staff. Testing showed good performance, particularly for a relatively inexpensive configuration. Testing was performed by Dan Million.