B2SAFE
What is B2SAFE
B2SAFE is a robust and highly available service which allows community and departmental repositories to implement data management policies on their research data across multiple administrative domains in a trustworthy manner. It offers an abstraction layer of large scale, heterogeneous data storages, guards against data loss in long-term archiving, allows to optimize access for users (e.g. from different regions), brings data closer to facilities for compute-intensive analysis.
Features
- Support for data management policies (e.g. registration of PIDs, cross-site replication, data integrity checks)
- Support for policies customised to community and organisational needs
- Support for less frequently used archival data, but can also support active data
- Support for large scale storage resources (e.g up to PB-scale)
- A single namespace across heterogeneous storages
- Supports integration with different kind of storage systems (e.g. Tape based HSM, POSIX filesystems, Object storage)
- Access via GridFTP, Webdav, iRODS commands
- Service offered by a network of EUDAT service providers
Use Cases
Data Management in CompBioMed using EUDAT services
CompBioMed is a European commission H2020 funded Centre of Excellence (CoE) focused on the use and development of computational methods for biomedical application.
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EUDAT services to guarantee long time archiving and visibility to the repository of IST Austria
IST DataRep is the institutional repository for publishing research output of IST Austria affiliates.
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A distributed infrastructure for life-science information
ELIXIR builds a sustainable pan-European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation
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Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure in Europe.
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Long-term preservation of herbarium specimen images
Herbadrop is both an archival service for long-term preservation of herbarium specimen images and a tool for extracting information by image analysis.
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Support to scientific research on seasonal-to-decadal climate and air quality modelling
This pilot aims to “better simulate” climate change, at seasonal to decadal time scale and forecast air quality using both existing and locally developed models EC-Earth (global circulation model,
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High resolution simulations for Precision Cosmology
The SIMCODE-DS project deals with the need of high resolution simulations in view of the advent of what is known as the epoch of “Precision Cosmology”.
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Enriching Europeana Newspapers
Enriching Europeana Newspapers aims to expose the full text aggregated as part of the Europeana Newspapers project.
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European Plate Observing System
The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is the integrated solid Earth Sciences research infrastructure approved by the European Strategy For
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Integrated Carbon Observation System
ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) is a new European research infrastructure (RI) with the mission to enable research to understand the
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Tokamak data mirror for JET and MAST data
Our data pilot will provide a mirror of experimental data from two magnetic confinement nuclear fusion devices (Tokamaks) at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE): the Joint European Torus (JE
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The use of the EUDAT repository to store clinical trials in a secure and compliant way
The EUDAT repository and services will be used for the secure, GCP (Good Clinical Practice) compliant and transparent storage of clinical trials data.
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Unified Access to EISCAT radar data
The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) operates three incoherent scatter radars, instruments probing the Earth’s ionosphere.
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European Long Term Ecological Research Network
Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) is an essential component of worldwide efforts to better understand ecosystems. This comprises their structure, functions, and long-term response to environmental, societal and economic drivers. Read more
Communities
Organisations
B2SAFE is perfect for:
Communities and organisations looking for long-term preservation of their data can use B2SAFE to replicating them to one or several other EUDAT sites. Community centres can also join the B2SAFE network which allows them to deploy the full B2SAFE software stack
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Resource offers
For Archival data
B2SAFE can provide an higher level of abstraction to different underlying Data Archival mechanisms, in order to maintain Data Objects metadata (including also PIDs) and integrating with external tools. This offer targets data which is not frequently used and needs to be stored for long term and offers the option to replicate data across different sites for safe keeping.
| Requested initial storage capacity | 10TB - higher than 500TB |
| Expected increase per year | 10TB - higher than 100TB |
| Type of storage | Online - Offline |
| Replication | None - More than 1 site |
| Average file size | smaller than 100MB - larger than 10GB |
| Expected number of files | less than 10k - more than 10M |
| Data access protocol | GridFTP - Other |
| Data management policies | PID registration - None |
| Preferred provider(s) | BSC, CINECA, CSC, CYPRUS, GRNET, KIT, MPCDF, SURF |
For Active data
As a standard default mechanism B2SAFE can allow users to simply store data directly in the iRODS File System (iRODS FS), rather than the Object Storage or the Data Archival (as previously described). B2SAFE can create and assign PIDs to data objects, and store metadata associated to files and directories that have been saved to the Posix FS, on users behalf. This offer targets active data which is frequently used.
| Requested initial storage capacity | 1TB - higher than 100TB |
| Expected increase per year | 1TB - higher than 20TB |
| Replication | None - More than 1 site |
| Backup | yes - no |
| Average file size | smaller than 10MB - larger than 1GB |
| Expected number of files | less than 10K - more than 10M |
| Data access protocol | GridFTP - Other |
| Data management policies | PID registration - Other |
| Preferred provider(s) | CINECA, CSC, FZJ, GRNET, IT4I, KIT, SNIC |