| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/V000268/1 |
| Title: |
Research Data Facility As A Service |
| Principal Investigator: |
Parsons, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 May 2020 |
Ends: |
31 July 2021 |
Value (£): |
297,116
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
We propose to provide a replacement to the Research Data Facility (RDF), operated at EPCC on behalf of EPSRC, as a service from May 2020 for a period of 12 months. The original RDF was first purchased in 2011 and expanded in 2013. Its oldest parts are over 8 years old and no longer maintainable. To reduce risk to users' data and to provide a low-cost solution to a complex data management challenge, EPCC proposes to operate the new RDF as a Service (RDFaaS), providing the upfront capital funding ourselves. EPSRC data will be copied from the old to the new system as part of the project. EPCC proposes to operate a one-year service providing 5 Petabytes of storage to the EPSRC ARCHER 2 and link Tier 2 scientific communities in the first instance.
The service itself will have exactly the same goals as the original service. Namely to:
1. Provide a secure, well-managed, robust, high-performance research data repository for EPSRC National HPC service users from across the UK;
2. Support collaborative working within consortia and with external collaborators including international collaborators; and
3. Ensure data can be copied on and off the service simply both to the National HPC service and to the users' home institutions as required.
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http://www.ed.ac.uk |