Data Services
Petabytes of scientific data
In the current era of Petascale supercomputers, in which scientific machines (e.g. LHC, Lofar) generate Petabytes of scientific data on a yearly basis, handling fast growing data sets is becoming a challenge for the scientific community.
SARA's support
SARA’s Data Services group provides services to the scientific user community in handling the scientific data explosion and long-term data preservation scientific data sets. We work closely together with all groups within SARA, participate in a wide range of national, European and global scientific projects (e.g. PRACE, WLCG, Lofar) and support scientific communities or individual scientists in handling their growing data challenges.
Two facilitites
To manage all this data the Data Services group manages two facilities for long-term data preservation: