| Services Offered |
ANUSF supports projects with large data or data intensive requirements.
The areas covered include
- managing large or complex data repositories
- Web portals and specialist tools
- curation advice of data and metadata
- grid technologies for remote access, transfer and replication of data
- relational database management support
- data mining and analysis
- support for data workflows and pipelines linking to instruments or computational models
- project tracking, auditing and performance advice
The facility manages a large mass data storage system which is an environment
that supports many of these activities.
Through the facilities Vizlab there are related services for assistance with
visualiation techniques for existing datasets.
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| Applying for a Project |
Projects which are requesting space and support on the system should do so
by submitting a form with details about the project. Forms to
apply for access
are hosted on the APAC National Facility web pages. In particular,
there is a request for a new project and a form for
a variation for an existing project. Please note the
access policy.
See existing ANU projects and datasets MDSS Usage.
Note that:
- ANU researchers who have a new mass data only project not
associated with a computational MAS or STAC project
should fill out the 'For NEW data intensive project Form'.
The question on that form about the national significance of
the data-sets may be answered with the likes of 'Not Applicable'.
- If you have just applied for a computational MAS or STAC project
which has not yet been approved, please use the
'MAS and Partner Share Computational Projects Form' if you will
require more than 20GB of storage. Ask us if
you are unsure of the project code of the new project.
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| Consulting Support |
Projects dealing with massive amounts of data need to carefully
consider all aspects of data acquisition, storage, retrieval,
navigation, and interpretation.
ANUSF consulting staff are available to
assist projects in all phases of
this cradle-to-grave process. Send email to
help@anusf.anu.edu.au to
make an appointment for an exploratory conversation. ANUSF staff are
available for either short-term or long-term consultancies to assist
with data management.
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| Data Storage System Details |
The Mass Data Storage System is the main infrastructure for managing
data. The facility (more details) includes :
high speed network connection to AARNet and Grangenet
web, grid and other data transfer programs
large disk-resident high speed I/O filesystems in a unix environment
integrated deep archival facility through use of HSM filesystem management
various utilities for the transfer of data
clustered user accessible relational database support
programmer interfaces to manage data
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| Software available |
A range of software tools
is available to assist with data problems, including access to database servers,
network transfers, data formats, data analysis and repository management software. See our software list for details. If the list does not have the software
you require then submit a software request form.
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| Data Handling Techniques |
There are a range of technologies and techniques
for working with large data.
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