Oak is a High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage system available to research groups and projects at Stanford. It was purpose-built to hold research data. It provides affordable and scalable storage with a diversity of access methods.
Guidance
Use this option when you…
- Are a researcher and need “cheap and deep” research-oriented storage on campus
- You have an account on Sherlock, SCG or another Stanford compute cluster
- Are comfortable using command-line tools like ssh, scp, rsync, bbcp and others
- Need low-latency, high-throughput storage connections
- Want workgroup integration with the campus directory
Example Use Cases
- Analyzing a large data set of information on a research cluster
- Long-running analytical software is creating terabytes of ancillary files
- Manipulating very large files on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems
Cost Considerations
- Disk space is available in 10 and 250 TB increments
- Charges are monthly
- Purchase of an NFS or CIFS (SMB) service gateway is extra
- Backups are not included
- Off-site data replication is not included
Support
Support is provided by Stanford Research Computing Center (SRCC).
