IRODS workshop, September 26-28 2012 , Linköping (Sweden)

iRODS Workshop users needs summary

Agnès Ansari – agnes.ansari@idris.fr

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NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY

• Information from the different talks we had and from the discussion

We discussed:• Users needs• Community needs• PRACE-EUDAT collaboration

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SHARING (1)

Between: • multiple users of a group• multiple users of different groups• multiple users groups• multiple users of one community• users of several communities (interdisciplinary

projects)• National and international levels

Access rights on files are needed

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SHARING (2)

Global sharing: Data can be publicly available

• Within a single site• Within multiple sites• At the national level

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PRESERVATION

• There is a need for• long term preservation• mid term preservation• meta data have also to be taken into account

In case of long term preservation, a migration plan has to be planned.

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DATA TRANSFER

• To/from file system• To/from mass storage system• To/from data base• From middleware (Ireland)

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REPLICATION

• Needed for data security• Single site replication policy• Multi-sites replication policy• No replication policy• meta data have also to be taken into account

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METADATA SET/SEARCH CAPABILITY

• Often needed for sharing between communities

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PUBLICATION

• There is a need for data publication (data publicly available) • Sensitive data has to be considered where some restrictions on publication has to be set

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DATA MINING AND WORKFLOW

• The is a need to search for data • Can be done using meta data

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EUDAT Collaboration:

• Some EUDAT Communities (EPOS, VPH) manifested their interest in staging data onto and from PRACE resources. • PRACE users could be provided with the possibility to deposit their results into EUDAT storage and request EUDAT to preserve them.

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VOLUME

• Overall volume for the biggest project > 100TB