Data Services at IICT HPC Systems

Abstract

IICT operates a state-of-the-art computational infrastructure, developed over many years of continuous expansion. The latest acquisition has been the HEMUS supercomputer, inaugurated in November 2023. The infrastructure serves mainly diverse scientific communities with widely varying requirements for computational power and data storage and processing, which motivates a feature-rich organization of the data storage and analysis facilities. The main design goal has been to provide efficient access to the data, corresponding to the needs of the applications and workflows. Apart from that, the needs for ensuring regular backups and secure long term storage, taking into account the Open Science paradigm and FAIR principles are also considered. In this paper we outline our key technical solutions, the organization of the various data services at our datacenter as well as our near-term roadmap for deployment of new services.