So is this along the same lines as AWS S3?
Does it still rely on a download and compute framework?
Mohan Ramamurthy <mailto:mohan@xxxxxxxx>
February 11, 2016 at 4:42 PM
Carlos,
Unidata is working with Open Commons Consortium
(http://occ-data.org/), which provides "community-managed" cloud
storage and computing services. At the moment, Unidata's collaboration
with OCC is focused on the NOAA Big Data project, but we expect that
to grow beyond the scope of that project.
Mohan
On 2/11/16 2:34 PM, Carlos Maltzahn wrote:
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February 11, 2016 at 4:34 PM
All,
This is a request for examples of community-managed cloud storage
services where
* “community-managed” means that the cost of the cloud storage
service as well as its usage is managed by an institution serving
a (scientific community), including very large communities such as
earth sciences or smaller ones such as numerical weather
prediction, and
* “cloud storage services” are commercial, highly available
“pay-as-you-go” services that provide safe and economic storage of
large amounts of data and allow global sharing of that data
controlled by the party who pays, but disappear as soon as payment
for these services stop.
Today commercial cloud storage services are readily available and
successfully hide the many technical challenges of highly available
long-term storage at very attractive cost. Cloud storage also provides
an excellent platform for naming and sharing large (and small)
datasets which is essential for collaboration and reproducibility in
data-intensive scientific disciplines. Yet science communities are
slow to adopt cloud storage. There are probably many reasons for that
but one that I repeatedly came across: the data stored in cloud
storage disappears when funding for the service runs out.
If the availability of a particular data set depends on a single
community member's availability of funding, the likelihood of loosing
data can be quite high and makes cloud storage too brittle for a
reliable medium for scientific data. A better approach might be to
make the availability of all data sets depend on the availability of
funding within an entire community. Such an arrangement would benefit
that community by facilitating data sharing, collaboration, and
maintaining greater reproducibility of scientific results.
But community-funded cloud storage has all the management challenges
of a commons. For example, how should the storage space be governed?
How much money should the community spend on cloud storage? How is the
money raised among the members of the community? How do communities
prevent The Tragedy of the Commons
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons>?
Please let me know of any examples you are aware of. Who is working on
this? Do examples exist with somewhat different definitions of
"community-managed" or "cloud storage services”?
Thanks,
Carlos
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