The Research Computing team has launched a dedicated, robust, large capacity scientific data storage system called Engram to support research and collaboration for Zuckerman researchers. The system has a capacity of 23.8 petabytes6 petabytes (23,800 600 terabytes) and is designed to accommodate growth of tens of thousands of terabytes if required.
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Tiers of Storage and Rates
Engram has three storage levelsa single storage tier called Locker.
- The Engram rate is $87 per Terabyte (TB) per year.
- Each lab
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- receives 10 TB of free locker level disk space, or
- 7 TB of free labshare level disk space, or
- 5 TB of free staging level disk space
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- storage
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- Billing occurs
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- monthly via
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- chart string.
Rates (in the table below) are per Terabyte (TB) per year.
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Name
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Purpose
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Staging
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High performance
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For computing and analytics on data from multiple servers at the same time.
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Labshare
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General purpose
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Good for simple/light data analytics.
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Locker
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Longer-term
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For daily use and sharing files within/between labs and external collaborators.
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- Additional storage can be purchased in 1 TB increments.
To help you get started, please contact us at rc@zi.columbia.edu.
Data Life Cycle
You control the data stored on Engram. Your data will never be deleted. Only you can delete your data.
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- How large a network drive you need
- Engram Storage Level (Staging, Labshare or Locker)
- List of UNIs that should have access to this network drive.
Labshare and Locker storage levels are automatically Storage is automatically backed up to tape. If you need the Staging storage level to be backed up on tape please mention this in your service request.Please check the storage pricing above (under "Tiers of Storage and Rates").
Storage protocols.
Engram supports three different types of network drives:
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