The 6th annual iRODS User Group Meeting was held from 28 to 31 May in Amsterdam. iRODS has been utilised across various scientific domains for storing and sharing research data. This meeting was the perfect chance to meet iRODS users, consortium members, and staff to discuss iRODS-enabled applications and discoveries, technologies powered by iRODS, and the future of iRODS and the iRODS consortium.
The meeting hosted more than 25 presentations from the user community and the core development team, including use case presentations, live demonstrations and open discussions on requested iRODS features. It was attended by 150 participants representing dozens of academic, government and commercial institutions. Among the attendees were also the partners from the EXA4MIND project.
Martin Golasowski from IT4Innovations and Mohamad Hayek from Leibniz Supercomputing Centre attended the meeting in Amsterdam to present using the LEXIS Platform 2 and the iRODS software for large scale data management. The LEXIS Platform enables easy access to HPC and Cloud resources with orchestration of complex workflows and iRODS-based distributed data management. In their talk they presented the enhanced version of the LEXIS Platform, which includes centralised metadata index, direct staging from iRODS zones and application container support.
The extension of LEXIS data management functions is planned within EXA4MIND, thanks to the focus on the management of large amounts of data between various data sources, such as databases or object storage and HPC infrastructure, including data publishing functions following the FAIR principles. They also described several use cases of iRODS in the HPC environment, including the use of iRODS’ parallel transfer functionality to move large data from/to different HPC clusters and tests of new iRODS interfaces such as S3 and HTTP APIs.
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