Title
Shelter from the storm: building a safe archive in a hostile world
Abstract
The storing of data and configuration files related to scientific experiments is vital if those experiments are to remain reproducible, or if the data is to be shared easily. The prescence of historical (observed) data is also important in order to assist in model evaluation and development. This paper describes the design and implementation process for a data archive, which was required for a coastal modelling project. The construction of the archive is described in detail, from its design through to deployment and testing. As we will show, the archive has been designed to tolerate failures in its communications with external services, and also to ensure that no information is lost if the archive itself fails, i.e. upon restarting, the archive will still be in exactly the same state.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11575863_49
OTM Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
coastal modelling project,hostile world,model evaluation,external service,implementation process,safe archive,scientific experiment
Software deployment,Shared memory,Computer security,Computer science,Storm,Fault tolerance,Design process,Data archive,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3762
0302-9743
3-540-29739-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
1.21
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jon MacLaren1453.87
Gabrielle Allen2839116.72
Chirag Dekate3525.50
Dayong Huang4254.29
Andrei Hutanu514514.96
Chongjie Zhang615423.80