Speaker
Dr
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
(CPPM-IN2P3-CNRS)
Description
DIRAC Project is developing software for building distributed computing systems for the
needs of research communities. It provides a complete solution covering both Workload
Management and Data Management tasks of accessing computing and storage resources.
The Data Management subsystem (DMS) of DIRAC includes all the necessary components to organize
distributed data of a given scientific community. The central component of the DMS is the
File Catalog (DFC) service. It allows to build a logical File System of DIRAC presenting all
the distributed storage elements as a single entity for the users with transparent access
to the data. The Metadata functionality of the DFC service is provided to classify data
with user defined tags. This can be used for an efficient search of the data necessary
for a particular analysis. The DMS supports all the usual data management tasks of uploading and
downloading, replication, removal files, etc. A special attention is paid to the bulk data
operations involving large numbers of files. Automation of data operations driven by
new data registrations is also possible. In this contribution we will make an overview
of the DIRAC Data Management System and will give examples of its usage by several
research communities.
Primary author
Dr
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
(CPPM-IN2P3-CNRS)
