Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
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Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
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Re: Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
#2looks like the image on the right is broken, but it is supposed to be: https://cta.web.cern.ch/cta/assets/images/namespace_statisti...
(looks like this submission uses https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html instead of https://castor.web.cern.ch/castor/ the second link does not have the broken image)
Re: Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
#3The various CERN web pages such as this were a treasure trove of information when I was working on my last novel. I actually included a few paragraphs on Castor thinking of using it as a side-plot, but my editor cut the plot out along with a few other technical niceties. Sigh!
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#4"Castor" was the name of a storage system used for transporting nuclear waste in Germany. There were quite a few protests against shipping nuclear waste through the country.
Wouldn't have been my choice for a software project :-)
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#5This is actually super useful for real world stuff. Thanks for this.
Tape is boring but when an intern / AI / tectonic plate accidently destroys your database setup it is a huge lifesaver
Anybody know what these fancy Oracle tapes are? Is it just their implementation of a regular standard?
Re: Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
#6I’m a little confused by this submission. CASTOR is the old system that has since been replaced by the CERN Tape Array since ~2020: https://cta.web.cern.ch/cta/
This is mentioned on the page but it’s easy to miss.
For the current status of tape storage at CERN see: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1471803/contributions/6967379/a...
For reference, most disk storage for physics data uses an in-house solution called EOS: https://eos-web.web.cern.ch/eos-web/
Re: Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
#7"Castor" was the name of a storage system used for transporting nuclear waste in Germany. There were quite a few protests against shipping nuclear waste through the country. Wouldn't have been my choice for a software project :-)
It’s also French for Beaver which is more likely the origin of the name.
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#8This is actually super useful for real world stuff. Thanks for this. Tape is boring but when an intern / AI / tectonic plate accidently destroys your database setup it is a huge lifesaver Anybody know what these fancy Oracle tapes are? Is it just their implementation of a regular standard?
See this conference talk from last week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1471803/contributions/6967379/
There isn’t a recording but slides at linked from that page.
Re: Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
#9"Castor" was the name of a storage system used for transporting nuclear waste in Germany. There were quite a few protests against shipping nuclear waste through the country. Wouldn't have been my choice for a software project :-)
It’s also French for Beaver which is more likely the origin of the name.
It's also Latin and Greek for beaver which is more likely the origin of the name.
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