UK Research Data Facility (UK-RDF)
The UK Research Data Facility (UK-RDF), funded by EPSRC and NERC, is collocated with ARCHER and is housed at the ACF facility.
The Research Councils' vision behind the RDF:
- Provide a high capacity robust file store;
- Persistent infrastructure - will last beyond any one national service;
- Easily extensible in size and number of hosts - degree of future proofing and potential for increasing local post processing activities;
- Operates independently of any one vendor's offering for compute;
- Remotely accessible via an Edinburgh host - not restricted to through login nodes;
- Will remove end of service data issues - transfers at end of services have become increasingly lengthy;
- Will also ensure that data from the current ARCHER service is secured - this will ensure a degree of soft landing if there is ever a gap in National Services;
This site will describe the UK Research Data Facility and how to access it.