Revision as of 13:54, 30 June 2015

Storage for researchers

Researchers at University of Oslo may be granted up to 1TB of additional storage space to accommodate any extra requirements they might have when performing their research activities. For more information follow this link.

NorStore: the Norwegian Storage Infrastructure

The resources that are available for researchers in the national high performance computing facilities are usually accompanied with limited resources and services for storing larger data collections, sharing and staging of data collections and long-term preservation of data.

NorStore offers a scalable, network accessible storage infrastructure. This is accomplished by providing resources and services for general data storage that allow users to store and access seamlessly data using a hierarchy of storage media. NorStore provides independent storage resources and services for data collections that are not easily managed or hosted on other existing systems or by research groups themselves. Storage space is available as a separate independent data allocation in the national e-Infrastructure and is intended for short- and long-term storage, and staging and sharing of data collections in databases or other specific services on disk or tape.

For more information, visit norStore website.

How to access my project area from my local machine?

From a Windows laptop or stationary Windows machine:

You can install sshfs yourself (or ask for help if needed). You can get sshfs for windows at  https://github.com/dimov-cz/win-sshfs/releases

A nice documentation how to set up win-sshfs can be found at [1] (instructions for windows 7 too). Create a new entry for your NorStore data storage and login with your NorStore credentials. You can configure win-sshfs to automically mount your NorStore disk when you logon to your Windows pc. Your data is now available like any other disk you have access to from Windows and can be used in any Windows application. The I/O speed from and to the NorStore disk is good although not comparable with your local C-drive, but sufficient for most purposes. The advantage is large amount of secure storing with backup.

From a Linux laptop or stationary linux machine:

you can use sshfs. Please contact us (drift@geo.uio.no)  if it does not work or if sshfs is not avaliable on your machine.

Can I process data stored in my project area directly from norStore?

It is sometimes very convenient (and fast!) to process your data directly on norStore. For this you can login on a norStore machine called:

cruncher.norstore.uio.no

To get the list of available software on cruncher:

module avail

or you can get the up to date list from [1]

You can contact us (drift@geo.uio.no) or directly norstore support (support@norstore.no) if you wish to have a new software/library installed on cruncher.