UK Research Data Facility (UK-RDF) Guide
The UK Research Data Facility (UK-RDF), funded by EPSRC and NERC, is collocated with ARCHER and is housed at the ACF facility.
The Research Councils' vision behind the RDF:
- Provide a high capacity robust file store;
- Easily extensible in size and number of hosts - degree of future proofing and potential for increasing local post processing activities;
- Operates independently of any one vendor's offering for compute;
- Remotely accessible via an Edinburgh host - not restricted to through login nodes;
This guide describes the UK-RDF and provides information on how to use the facility.
If you have any questions about the RDF, please contact the ARCHER Helpdesk.
Contents
1. Introduction
An introduction to the UK-RDF facility. This includes information on the hardware.
- 1.1 Acknowledging UK-RDF
- 1.2 Disk Hardware
- 1.3 Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs)
- 1.3 Data Analytic Cluster (DAC)
2. Interactive access to UK-RDF
How to open an interactive connection to the UK-RDF resources
- 2.1 Access via ARCHER
- 2.2 Access via the Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs)
- 2.2 Access via the Data Analytic Cluster
- 2.4 Making access more convenient using a SSH Agent
3. UK-RDF File Systems
Overview of the file systems on the UK-RDF
4. Transferring Data to/from UK-RDF
Best practice for transferring data to/from UK-RDF
5. Using the UK-RDF Data Analytic Cluster (DAC)
How to get use the UK-RDF data analytic cluster (DAC). All nodes on the DAC have high-bandwidth, direct Infiniband connections to the UK-RDF disks.
