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Research data support at the Bolin Centre

Storage

Stockholm University provides two alternatives for data sharing and intermediate storage alternatives for intermediate storage.

  • Sunet Drive, 200 GB per person (which can be extended) as long as you are employed at SU
  • Swestore, 400 TB for climate modelling at the Bolin Centre

Sunet Drive

Sunet Drive is a NextCloud instance which is a secure storage solution at Stockholm University provided by Sunet. Data is stored within Sweden and are backed up incrementally over a six-month period. As a researcher or Ph.D. student, you can get 200 GB of storage space at no cost. Additional space can be ordered at a price of ca. 720 SEK/TB/year.

More information about Sunet Drive at Stockholm University

Swestore

400 TB of temporary storage for up to several years for active projects managed by the Bolin Centre. This storage is intended for data that still needs to be kept, but is not active. Data that can be stored here is large coherent datasets, e.g. raw data from climate model simulations. The data needs to be documented and have an expiry date.

Backup: Copies of the data are stored at two different NAISS centres.

dCache

Currently we have 400 TB storage on dCache. This resource will most likely be expanded in the future.

Storage policy

  • Only complete model simulations will be stored on Swestore, i.e. coherent large data sets that need to be stored for a long time and reused. The data will be stored based on model/production method, responsible PI, producer and data set, e.g.:

    swestore:/snic/bolinc/MODEL/PI/PRODUCER/DATASET

    swestore:/snic/bolinc/NorESM1/AnnicaEkman/x_alewi/7xEU_OC

  • A data description README file has to be uploaded which describes the data, along with configuration scripts and namelists.

  • An expiry date for the data set has to be provided, indicating when the data will be deleted or further storage reviewed.

How to use Swestore/dCache