IRODS workshop, September , Linköping (Sweden) iRODS Workshop users needs summary Agnès Ansari – Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 01:30 PM to Friday, 28 September

2 NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY Information from the different talks we had and from the discussion We discussed: Users needs Community needs PRACE-EUDAT collaboration

3 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

4 SHARING (2) Global sharing: Data can be publicly available Within a single site Within multiple sites At the national level

5 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.

6 DATA TRANSFER To/from file system To/from mass storage system To/from data base From middleware (Ireland)

7 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

8 METADATA SET/SEARCH CAPABILITY Often needed for sharing between communities

9 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

10 DATA MINING AND WORKFLOW The is a need to search for data Can be done using meta data

11 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.

12 VOLUME Overall volume for the biggest project > 100TB