Private Software

Step 1: Filling your contact information

The page you are currently reading is the first page of the download process for the private software.

Please fill your contact information in the form below to be able to access the software, select the software that you want to download, and press the Get the software button at the bottom of the page.

Follow the form below including all of the following information:

• What you want to do with the software.
• Your full name, or the name of a contact person who will be responsible for looking after the software.
• The name of the person who will sign in step (2) below.
• The official name of your organization and its full postal address.

Please make sure you include all of these things the first time: I'm afraid that we are busy enough that we will probably just ignore incomplete requests. If you need to send any extra information via email, please don't use attachments: simple, plain ASCII text in the body of the message avoids all sorts of problems.

Also, please include your email address when you send the paper-based documents to us. This will help us process your request.

Step 2: Verify your information

The second page of the download process for the private software will let you verify that the information you entered was correct.

You will need to click ont the Yes button at the bottom of this page, and your information will be submitted to the Storage Systems Department.

Step 3: Sending the paper-based documentation

The third page of the download process will direct you to the URL to download the legal documents you will need to proceed: the License Agreement and the Appendix for the software you selected.

The information you entered in the web-based form on the first page, and verified in the second page, will be sent to the Storage Systems Department for review.

If your request is interesting enough, we will let you know, and ask you to proceed. The next step is a heavyweight one: your lawyers will probably want to get involved. Please do not proceed to the next step without first getting our approval.

You will have to find the right official somebody in your organization to sign our license agreement. Note: this person must be able to make a legally binding agreement on your organization -- at a university this is often a department head or dean; it may even be the Regents of the University.

You print off two copies of the basic license agreement(download Acrobat reader), and two copies of each of the associated Appendices for the software that you need: there is one Appendix for each separate package.

The third page of the download process will give you the URLs to download the necessary Appendices.

Please read these Appendices carefully: several packages have interdependencies, and it is your job to make sure you have correctly selected all the appropriate Appendices for all the packages you need, not ours.

Make up two complete Agreements: each one will have a copy of the basic license agreement, plus one each of the Appendices.

Fill out all of the fields on the forms except for the HP signature portions. They must all agree. Do not leave any of them blank: it could invalidate the entire Agreement, in which case you will have to start over. If in doubt, ask us.

Have the appropriate person sign all the appropriate places, in both the basic license agreement and in every Appendix. Both copies.

Send both signed copies of the license agreement to us by physical mail:

HP Labs Storage Systems Program
c/o Sandra Barreto
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, mail-stop 1134
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126
tel: +1 (650) 236-8004

  Note: The username/password combination to access the software will be sent to you by email. Please include your email address when you send the paper-based documentation.

Step 4: Downloading the software

After we receive and evaluate the paper-based documents, you will be emailed a username/password combination that will give you access to the software package, and the URL to download it. Please include your email address in the paper-based documentation to help us process your request.

You do your research, and send us copies of any and all changes you make to our software, and any papers you write as a result of using it.

Tips on downloading the SSP software

Some of our software packages are just a single file, some data packages contain several gigabytes of data spread across multiple directories. Downloading the single-file packages will be pretty straightforward. For the multi-directory packages, a recursive download tool like wget can be useful. That way, you can selectively download a subtree that you want to use.

For wget v1.5.3, you can use a command like this to recursively download a directory tree:

wget wget -S -x -m --no-parent --recursive \
    --http-user=your_user --http-passwd=your_password \
    http://tesla.hpl.hp.com/public_software/path/to/the/directory/