The Fortress system is a large, long-term, multi-tiered file caching and storage system utilizing both online disk and robotic tape drives. Find out more at https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/storage/fortress/
| Platform | Tape |
|---|---|
| Primary Use | Data archive for long term storage; Individually oriented; Group sites created upon request. |
| Who Owns the Data | You/Purdue; Purdue/Research group lead faculty for group space. |
| Commercial Entity | No |
| Design Target (its goals) | Optimized for high-performance, long-term data storage. |
| Price | Free with purchase of Data Depot or Community Clusters. |
| Available storage | No upper limit; Total storage capacity; 10 PB. |
| Privacy | |
| Accessible from HPC systems | Uses Globus or HSI/HTAR to transfer data. |
| Back-ups | Data is written to multiple tapes simultaneously. No protection against accidental deletion. |
| Data retention | Data is not purged. |
| Shared account/support for collaboration | Set up to allow research lab wide access. Files/directories can be shared with collaborators. |
| Permissions | Community Cluster users have access. Group access can be set based on Project Team’s preferences. |
| Access after you leave Purdue | Lose access, but data is retained as long as a Purdue affiliated person is the project manager. |
| Data management plan | None. |
| Publication of datasets | No. |
| Assigns DOIs | No. |
| Preserve datasets | Data is never deleted, migrated to new tape technology. |
| Trusted repository | No |
| Metadata | No |
| Dataset preview and edit from the platform | No |
| Data security | Secured through Purdue authentication. |
| Treatment of sensitive data | Not allowed. |
