Open Source Tool Emerges for Managing Petabytes of Data

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 13, 2008

“The University of California at San Diego’s supercomputing
group has upgraded its time-tested data management software and
made it available as an open source offering designed to handle up
to petabytes of data.

“The Data-Intensive Computing Environments (DICE) group at the
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has issued iRODS (Integrated
Rule-Oriented Data System) 1.0, which the outfit says improves on
and goes beyond the Storage Resource Broker it has developed over
the past 10 years…”


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Web Webster

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