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Storage Resources, Data Transfer, and Data Access Resources

CISL provides several broad classes of storage resources and data access mechanisms. Follow the links below for additional information.

Storage Resources

  • GLADE for typical POSIX file system use, including resources such as
    • Home and Work spaces for individual user data,
    • Scratch Storage for temporary storage of large-scale modeling and analysis runs.
    • Campaign Storage longer-term online disk storage needs that are not easily accommodated by the scratch or work spaces.
    • The CMIP Analysis Platform, providing researchers convenient access to climate data from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project.
  • Quasar is a cold, tape-based archive for storing curated data collections that have an indefinite lifetime.
  • Stratus is an object storage disk system for long-term data storage.

Data Access and Data Transfer