Prototypes of alternative storage backends (MS7)

The objectives of the Exploitability work package within ESiWACE include two objectives:
(1) The development of a new way of laying data onto storage which provides performance without compromising the familiar NetCDF interface.
(2) The development of a prototype tape library.
We are delivering these two objectives using the same basic philosophy, which is to develop middleware which is easily deployable by users and system administrators, and which utilises fragmentation to provide performance. The current design includes the same basic concepts in two different software packages (the “Earth System Data Middleware” and the “Semantic Storage Layer”) which target these two objectives. Future projects may merge some or all the underlying
functionality. This milestone (7) reports a staging point in the development of these two components, the release of tagged software for the ESDM and SemSL.