Data

Data connects most research together. It’s easy to make in short term, but in the long term it can become so chaotic it loses its value. Can you access your research group’s data from 5 years ago and use it?

Data storage in Aalto

Data in Science-IT departments

Data on Triton

Triton is a computer cluster that provides large and fast data storage connected to significant computing power, but it is not backed up.

Data management

This section covers administrative and organizational matters about data.

Other

Summary table

O = good, x = bad

Large

Fast

Confidential

Frequent backups

Long-term archival

Code

OO

OO

Original data

O

O

OO?

OO

OO

Intermediate files

OO

OO

OO?

Final results/open data

OO

Large

Fast

Confidential

Backups

Long-term archival

Shareable

Triton

scratch

OO

OO

O

x

x

O

work

OO

OO

O

x

x

Triton home

x

O

OO

Local disks

O

OO

O

ramfs

OOO

OO

Depts

/m/…/project

O

O

OO

OO

O

/m/…/archive

O

O

OO

OO

O

O

Aalto

Aalto home

OO

OO

Aalto work

O

O

OO

OO

O

Aalto teamwork

O

O

OO

OO

O

Aalto laptops

x

x

X

Aalto webspace

OO

version.aalto.fi

OO

OO

O

OO

ACRIS

O

O

Eduuni

Aalto Wiki

Finland

Funet filesender

O

OO

CSC cPouta

O

O

O

CSC Ida

OOO

x

OO

O

O

FSD

OO

O

OO

O

Public

github

x

OO

Zenodo

OO

OO

Google drive

x

O

OneDrive

Own computers

x

x

x

Emails

x

x

x

EUDAT B2SHARE

O

O

O