Data services

Day-to-day

Within each NeSI facility, there are high performance parallel file systems to support high-speed data input/output when running computational jobs. This is supported by hierarchical storage management to facilitate access to nearline storage. Research projects are able to store data on NeSI's storage facilities while they have active research projects on NeSI platforms. NeSI does not provide a long term data archive service.

Data transfer between facilities

NeSI operates high-speed Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs) at each of its facilities, providing researchers with the ability to move data to and from its platforms quickly and easily. NeSI supports Globus (www.globus.org) as an efficient, high-speed data transfer tool. NeSI collaborates with many local institutions to help facilitate data transfer to and from those institutions.

Documentation on how to set up your user account on Globus.org in order to use the NeSI data transfer endpoints is available on the NeSI Data Transfer authentication page. If you need technical support in transferring large data sets to and from the NeSI platforms, please contact support@nesi.org.nz.