Research Storage
Indiana University offers a scalable, network accessible, open, standards-based storage infrastructure to support teaching, research and administrative computing.
Long-Term
- Research File System (RFS)
RFS is a file-system based storage system for researchers at Indiana University. RFS accounts are available to research faculty and graduate students with a quota of one Gigabyte. Shared research project areas can be created with quotas starting at five Gigabytes. RFS can be connected to via an OpenAFS client, with a Web browser using RFSWeb, via SFTP or mounted as a Windows share through Samba. RFS is supported by RAC's Distributed Storage Services Group.
- Massive Data Storage System (MDSS)
Delivered using the the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) software the Massive Data Storage service is intended for users with projects which need large-scale, archival, near-line storage. Since HPSS works best with large files, optimal applications will store data in files that are typically larger than 50MB. MDSS is supported by RAC's Distributed Storage Services Group.
Short-term
- Data Capacitor
The Data Capacitor is a massive, temporary storage system designed to help researchers deal with the massive amounts of data being generated by advanced digital instruments. The Data Capacitor will make a considerable impact on researchers in the life sciences, where data management challenges are particularly severe; but researchers of many disciplines will be better able to draw from their data the information and meaning it contains.
- Slashtmp
Slashtmp is a service at Indiana University that allows IU grad students, faculty, and staff to share files with IU or non-IU users via a web interface. It is particularly useful for those who want to share files that are too large to send via email. Slashtmp is intended for support of research and collaboration. Each user has 1GB of space in Slashtmp.
