Archival services

The development of large scale archive services now underway. Within the coming years it is planned to enhance the LSDF with:

• An Easy-to-use interface for deposit and update
• Access to files via persistent URLs. Collections can be openly accessible or available to administrators only.
• Support for specific file types and raw data
• Permanent storage with tools for long-term management

Several projects have started to make this happen. The LSDMA activities within the PoF programme "Supercompting and Big Data" delivers input from a wide range of scientific communities and defines requirements for data archival and repositories. Focus of the project bwDataArchiv funded by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, is the installation and deployment of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS). The result is a reliable yet economical mass storage system with high speed interfaces for users and tools. expedited projects at HLRS and interfaces to for users and

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(last edit 19.02.2014)