Why EUDAT?

EUDAT addresses the needs of research communities who are producing or using very large data sets for research purposes.

The research communities need places to store their data – and usually they want to make that data available to other researchers too. Many researchers also need ways to move or copy their data to and from the high-performance computing centres where it is processed. Researchers themselves want to share their data so they can be (re)used by others (and ultimately contribute to society and help solve some of our grand challenges). However, both the researchers who make their data available to others and the researchers who use others’ data all need to be absolutely certain that the data is managed and stored in a secure and professional and persistent manner.

 

The EUDAT offer

Do you need to store, replicate, share research data in a seamless way? Do you want to share your research data with other research communities? Do you need large data processing capabilities? Do you want to preserve value and identity of your community results?

With EUDAT services you can:

  1. Benefit of a simple, efficient, trustworthy, affordable collaborative and interoperable data infrastructure
  2. Connect  with Europe’s most powerful  supercomputers
  3. Be supported by a pool of experts to tackle your data challenge
  4. Trace data origin in the metadata catalogue

 

EUDAT Service Catalogue:

  1. B2DROP Sync and Exchange Research Data: a personal cloud solution based in the trusted EUDAT CDI domain to store and share datasets in the early state of the research data life cycle.
  2. B2SHARE Store and Share Research Data: a user-friendly, reliable and trustworthy service for research communities to store and share small-scale research data coming from diverse contexts.
  3. B2FIND Find Research Data: a simple, user-friendly portal for finding research data collections stored in EUDAT data centres and other data repositories.
  4. B2SAFE Replicate Research Data Safely: a robust, safe and highly-available data management and replication service allowing community and departmental repositories to replicate and preserve their research data across EUDAT data nodes.
  5. B2STAGE Get Data to Computation: a reliable, efficient, easy-to-use service to ship large amounts of research data between EUDAT data nodes and workspace areas of high-performance computing systems.

All EUDAT services have a dedicated support helpdesk.

 

EUDAT main benefits

  1. Existing data are easy to integrate into the EUDAT infrastructure.
  2. EUDAT services can be quicky installed.
  3. Interacting with the EUDAT services is easy. Research communities can tweak specific EUDAT services to match community services, and to create thin layers that map community data into the EUDAT data framework.