The Center for High Performance Computing includes Research Object Storage System (nicknamed ROSS) as a low-cost option for archiving data. Although there is a fee for using the object store, the cost of the storage is heavily subsidized by the university, according to current plans.
Each HPC user can request private space on the object store, tied to their HPC account, for personal use, for example to back up their home directory on Grace's cluster storage, or to hold research data sets when they are not being actively used. In addition, labs, departments, or other entities can request shared space that can be utilized by all of their users. ROSS is currently based on the Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) system. The ECS system is now available for use, and is jointly managed by the HPC administration team and UAMS IT (i.e. UAMS IT runs the data center infrastructure in which it ROSS sits and the networking infrastructure needed to access it, while the HPC team manages access to the ECS itself).
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