Elm documentation#
Welcome to Elm!#
Elm is an innovative tape-based object store project designed at the Stanford Research Computing (SRC) to address the large data archiving needs of the Stanford research community. Architected and administered by Stanford Research Computing (SRC), Elm provides affordable and scalable storage facilitated through the S3 API.
Elm is currently in deployment phase
Elm is currently available to the Human Neural Circuitry program only
Elm will be available as a service for all researchers at Stanford later this year to store Low and Moderate risk data, and next year for data classified as High Risk based on the Stanford Data Risk Classifications.
Why use Elm?#
Elm was designed with the following objectives in mind:
Objectives
On-prem data archiving service for research
Extreme scalability (>200 PB of data)
High throughput and high capacity
Interoperability via S3 object store API (cloud-like) service interface
Protect from vendor lock-in and cost escalation through open source software