Data grid Storage Infrastructure for e-Research (DSIeR) Project
The DSIeR Project was a 2006 collaboration between University of Queensland, Australian National University, Monash University and James Cook University. It was funded by ARC (through an ARC LIEF grant) and the four participating universities. The project was to provide and explore issues surrounding a data storage backbone, physically distributed between Townsville, Brisbane, Canberra and Clayton.
At Monash, the DSIeR project funded the addition of two robot controlled tape libraries in the Monash Large Research Datas store (LaRDS). The Monash component of the DSIeR Project, in conjunction with the LaRDS Project, provides a large data storage facility to meet the needs of Monash researchers. The DSIeR project added the following capacity to the LaRDS facility:
- 40 TB on-line disk storage capacity plus
- 80 TB near-line (robot) tape storage library
- A tera byte (TB) is 1012 bytes or 1 million mega bytes.
The disk capacity was commissioned in April 2006. The tape libraries were delivered in December 2006.
This infrastructure also supported the activities of work package SI9 of the DART Project.
Related projects
Monash Large Data Store (LaRDS) Project
The LaRDS Project provides hundreds of tera bytes of additional storage for Monash researchers. This storage is available for access via the Monash Sun Grid and other platforms.
Monash Sun Grid (MSG) Project
LaRDS/DSIeR storage is available for access via the Monash Sun Grid (MSG) compute grid facility and other platforms. The MSG was established in 2005, and expanded in 2006.
Monash Campus Grid (MCG) Programme
Together, MSG and LaRDS form major foundation components in the development of a Monash Campus Grid (MCG) facility.
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