Echo
ECHO is the Ceph-backed object storage service for particle physics data, developed at STFC to meet the UK’s data storage commitments to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN.
ECHO also provides S3 storage to the STFC Cloud and other STFC departments and members of the IRIS Collaboration.
Related Programmes, Projects or Facilities
IRIS - A Community creating Digital Research Infrastructure to support STFC Science
For more information about the IRIS programme, please visit the IRIS website here.
STFC Cloud - A Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure providing access to Compute Resources for Users
For more information about ECHO and our STFC Cloud infrastructure, please visit our page here.
GridPP - Distributed Computing for Data-Intensive Research
For more information about GridPP, please visit their website here.
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Team Talks about Echo
Cephalocon 2018
Watch our team talk on Erasure Code at Scale here.
Ceph Day CERN 2019
Watch our team talk at Ceph Day 2019 here.
HEPiX October 2023
Read our team presentation on Deploying and
Running Ceph Clusters for Analysis Facilities here.
