LS-CAT

Data Collection

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Detector Configurations & Site Files

Data Storage at LS-CAT

LS-CAT uses the open-source Lustre file system to manage data storage. This file system was initially designed for use at supercomputer facilities by a private company and is now open-source and maintained by the OpenSFS consortium. The Lustre file system stripes data across a cluster of servers for high throughput with redundancy across both multiple disks and multiple serves to protect your research from unrecoverable data loss.

Our own Lustre configuration stores all data in at least 2 different places and provides 30Gbps of read throughput, and Lustre can scale horizontally by adding more servers and disks to achieve even higher throughput. At 100TB our Lustre configuration is less than 0.1% of the size of most configurations, leaving ample room to scale as our organization expands.

Data Retention Policy (non-proprietary data)

For the benefit of our academic users, we guarantee retention of data on-site for 31 days.

Data Retention Policy (proprietary data)

For the security of our industrial users, we retain data for 8 days, see to it that our users have retrieved all their data, and then promptly delete it from our on-site storage.