Departmental servers generally provide storage, file, print and occasional email services for departments on campus. They are funded and maintained by each department separately and therefore may have very different specifications, support and allotments. Find out more by asking the department IT staff for more information.
Platform | Local servers |
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Primary Use | Project work space; Group oriented. |
Who Owns the Data | You/Purdue. |
Commercial Entity | No |
Design Target (its goals) | Local storage. |
Price | The costs of purchase, maintenance, update and security done locally |
Available storage | Depends upon departmental resources. |
Privacy | No expectation of privacy. |
Accessible from HPC systems | Generally can use FTP, Globus, SCP, or other service to access HPC systems. Depends upon departmental resources. |
Back-ups | Check with administration. |
Data retention | Depends upon departmental resources. |
Shared account/support for collaboration | Depends upon departmental resources. |
Permissions | Depends upon departmental resources. |
Access after you leave Purdue | Lose access. |
Data management plan | None. |
Publication of datasets | No |
Assigns DOIs | No |
Preserve datasets | Generally none. |
Trusted repository | No |
Metadata | No |
Dataset preview and edit from the platform | No |
Data security | Depends upon departmental resources. Generally, campus firewall and Purdue authentication. |
Treatment of sensitive data | Depends upon departmental resources. |