Open Source Tool Emerges for Managing Petabytes of Data

Feb 12, 2008, 22:00 (0 Talkback[s])

"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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