Storage@GridKa school of computing

The GridKa school of computing was last week. There are a few storage related talks which you can find on the agenda.

* I gave an overview talk about storage on the Grid.

* There was a dCache tutorial session which gave a good summary of all things SRM2.2.

* Sun Microsystems had some stuff to say about Lustre and pNFS (not the dCache PNFS!).

There were also presentations about local user analysis and a session on ROOT/PROOF (which is closely related to local analysis work, although not in the Grid-storage sense). For some reason the material for those talks is not available yet. You can see the full agenda here.

GridKa school of computing 2008

I have been asked to present a talk titles "The Importance of Data Storage" at this years GridKa school of computing. In particular, I have been asked to discuss issues like:

* computing and data storage: differences in the challenges.
* several examples of communities needing large amounts of data on the grid (if possible, communities having different access models).
* usage of different storage technologies (disk, tape, solid state,...).
* different tools for storing huge amounts of data.

If anyone has any pertinent ideas then I'd like to know about them, particularly when it comes to non-HEP users of Grid storage.

Cheers,
Greig