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RData

High-performance storage for use with our HPC systems

Research Data Storage (RData) is a high-performance storage system built on IBM’s GPFS parallel filesytem. It is a tiered system with mutliple internal disk pools of both flash drives and spinning disks.

Location

Normally RData is your data directory.

Rates

Here are the details of Rates for Research Data Storage

Access

  • Users can access their RData by ssh or VNC into Oscar.
  • Users can access their RData as a local mount on their computers using either SMB or CIFS
  • Users can access the snapshops of their RData for the last 5-7 days.

Transfer