ECMWF Data Cube

Warning

The following information is new and work in progress, thus not everything might be up to data at all times.

The ECMWF Data Cube is currently set up on AlpsB, which is a storage system at the ECMWF Data Center in Bologna.

Technical Details

• Storage-focused system
• data hypercube
• 0.5 PB of fast SSD storage
• 2 PB of “slow” storage
• Build via work package of SwissTwins project
• Physically installed at ECMWF Bologna with a direct connection to Alps Lugano ALPS
• Part of the multi-site distributed infrastructure (Lugano, Lausanne, Bologna)

Usage

• Using polytope web service it will be possible to query ECMWF MARS (Meteorological Archival and Retrieval System)
• Polytope is being set up on AlpsB