XSEDE Data Management Use Cases v1.6

Abstract

The Data Management use cases cover a broad range of activities related to data movement, storage, and archival by users and communities of users in the context of XSEDE. These include interactions with data collections created outside of XSEDE, data collections created using XSEDE resources, and communities and collections crossing the boundary of XSEDE to include campus-level resources. The current use cases cover basic data sharing by a user community (UCDM1.0), execution of a coordinated program of research using a shared data collection (UCDM2.0), and a coordinated program of research utilizing data generated by a sensor or network of sensors on a regular or continuous basis (UCDM3.0). Future use cases will address migration of a users data in association with a change of primary computational activity or a change of service provider status (UCDM 4.0), and creation, access, and search of metadata associated with a data collection (UCDM5.0).