Caringo announced an ambitious project by the San DiegoSupercomputerCenter at the University of California
San Diego to bring Redlining grids to UC campuses
which are stored in a Caringo CAStor cluster.
The implementation has started with a CAStor clustered
storage pool that is initially tasked with archiving The Redlining Archives of
California’s Exclusionary Spaces (T-RACES). The project brings the history of
red-lining from the shelves of the National Archives and puts it online in
digital format. Using a Caringo archive as primary storage and keeping all data
on a single tier of storage gives UC researchers and others easy access to
digitized information, including maps, interviews, financial documents, and
detailed city surveys from the 1930s and 40s.
Caringo’s CAStor software eliminates performance and
scalability limitations of conventional clustered storage systems by
virtualizing storage across internal disks on every node and providing a vast128-bit
flat address space. CAStor clusters scale from Terabytes to Petabytes using
commodity server hardware with self-managing capabilities along with automated
replication and archiving features that minimize administrative effort.
“When designing a project of this scale that will be used
across UC campuses, we had to consider a storage infrastructure that would be
highly scalable and easy to use," said Richard Marciano, director of
SDSC’s Sustainable Archives and Library Technologies Lab. “There is a lot of
interest in interoperability between storage infrastructures and we have found
a way to cross-register the red-lining content and CAStor. CAStor’s ease of
local replication, storage-policy based retention, and wide-area replication
through sets of rules makes it very flexible and attractive.”
The T-RACES project will be one of the first to utilize the
new Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Grid, a cyber-infrastructure
initiative organized by the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). It will
eventually provide researchers across all UC campuses with shared access to
rare historical documents and other information dating back more than 70 years.
The HASS Grid along with CAStor and other key software tools brings new
analytical capabilities to collaborate with colleagues, produce more accurate
conclusions and publish their findings into a digital library.
For
more information on Caringo contact Mark
Smith, marks@jprcom.comat JPR Communications.
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