Data Storage and Archiving - Fred Access

New users

New users in the scientific community (grad students, postdocs, faculty, technicians) should complete the computing application request available here: Computing Application.

About Fred

The Reseach Computing Support has developed automated systems to handle the transfer of large datasets generated through services provided by several of the Shared Resources (including Animal Bioimaging Center, Electron Microscopy, Flow Cytometry, Genomics, Proteomics, and Scientific Imaging). We support the management of scientific data beginning with transfer of data through long-term storage of various raw and processed versions of the data on the servers known as "Fred". Investigators receive a personal directory on Fred in which they can organize and store their files.

Our data storage system is a network with storage capacity of 80 TB. Hierarchical storage management is employed to efficiently manage information life cycles by moving infrequently accessed data to fast tape drives and inexpensive disk systems, while providing seamless online access to the user.

Research Computing Support also hosts many computing intensive applications and databases used in analysis of datasets. See applications and hosting information.

Accessing your files

After data comes off a Shared Resource instrument, it is copied to a user or lab home directory (as indicated by the user) in a subfolder representing the resource where the data was generated.

For example, data from Flow Cytometry would be saved in:
/user_home_directory/flowlab/raw_data_file

Backup of Home Directory Data

All efforts are made to backup RCS filesystems on a nightly basis. The following policy applies to user's home directory files:

• RCS does nightly backups, 365 days a year
• A copy of all backed up data is taken to a remote site once a week for disaster recovery.

See our Service Level Agreement (SLA) for more details.

Connecting to your Fred Account

Directions for:

• PC users
• MacIntosh OS9 users
• MacIntosh OSX users

Passwords

For information on selecting a password, see IT's Hutchnet ID password page.

To change your password, go to the Change Password page.  

Acceptable Use

All computers and applications are to be used for their intended scientific research purposes. See the Center's policy on acceptable use for more details.

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