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SNIC is building a storage infrastructure to complement the computational resources.
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Many forms of automised measurements can produce large amounts of data. In scientific areas such as high energy physics (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN), climate modeling, bioinformatics, bioimaging etc., the demands for storage are increasing dramatically. To serve these and other user communities, SNIC has appointed a working group to design a storage strategy, taking into account the needs on many levels and creating a unified storage infrastructure, which is now being implemented.
 
 
 
== National storage ==
 
 
 
The aim of the nationally accessible storage is to build a robust, flexible and expandable system that can
 
be used in most cases where access to large scale storage is needed. To the user it should appear as a single large system,
 
while it is desirable that some parts of the system are distributed across all SNIC centres to benefit from the advantages
 
of, among other things, locality and cache effects. The system is intended as a versatile long-term storage system.
 
 
 
Swestore is collaboration with this groups [http://www.ecds.se ECDS],[http://snd.gu.se SND], Biomiage,[http://www.bils.se BILS],[http://www.uppnex.uu.se UPPNEX],[http://http://lcg.web.cern.ch/lcg/public/ WLCG],[http://www.nrm.se/ NaturHistoriska RiksMuseet]
 
 
 
Before you apple for storage to Swestore you should check if our collaborators cover your research area and read there information about apply for storage in SweStore.
 
 
 
* [[SweStore introduction]]
 
* [[Apply for storage on SweStore|Apply for storage or renew apply]]
 
* [[Grid certificates|Getting and using certificates]]
 
* [[Accessing SweStore national storage with the ARC client]]
 
* [[Mounting SweStore national storage via WebDAV| Not recomendated to use Mounting SweStore national storage via WebDAV]]
 
 
 
Support: [mailto:swestore-support@snic.vr.se swestore-support]<br>
 
 
 
===Example of storage project===
 
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!Allocation name
 
!Size in TB
 
!class="unsortable"|Project full name
 
|-
 
|alice
 
|400
 
|
 
|-
 
|brain_protein_atlas
 
|10
 
|Mouse brain protein atlas project
 
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| scims2lab
 
|20
 
| Identification of novel gene models by matching mass spectrometry data against 6-frame translations of the human genome
 
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|subatom
 
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|Low-energy nuclear theory and experiment
 
|Christian Forssén Department of Fundamental Physics Chalmers University of Technology
 
|Andreas Heinze Håkan Johansson Thomas Nilsson Lucas Platter Chalmers University of Technology
 
|-
 
|genomics-gu
 
|10
 
|Genomics Core Facility, Sahlgrenska academy at University of Gothenburg.
 
|-
 
|Chemo
 
|5TB
 
|Genetic interaction networks in human deseas
 
|-
 
 
 
== Center storage ==
 
 
 
Centre storage, as defined by the SNIC storage group, is a storage solution that lives independently of the computational resources and can be accessed from all such resources at a centre. Key features include the ability to access the same filesystem the same way on all computational resources at a centre and a unified structure and nomenclature for all centres. Unlike cluster storage, which is tightly associated with a single cluster and, thus, has a limited life-time, centre storage does not require the users to migrate their own data when clusters are decommissioned, not even when the storage hardware itself is being replaced.
 
 
 
To make the usage more transparent for SNIC users a set of environment variables are available on all SNIC resources:
 
 
 
SNIC_BACKUP – the user's primary directory at the centre (the part of the centre storage
 
that is backed up)
 
 
 
SNIC_NOBACKUP – recommended directory for project storage without backup (also on
 
the centre storage)
 
 
 
SNIC_TMP – recommended directory for best performance during a job (local disk on
 
nodes if applicable)
 
 
 
[[Category:Storage]]
 
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