RUCIO

Rucio is a project that provides services and associated libraries for allowing scientific collaborations to manage large volumes of data spread across facilities at multiple institutions and organisations.

Rucio was originally developed to meet the requirements of the high-energy physics experiment ATLAS, and now is continuously extended to support the LHC experiments and other diverse scientific communities. Rucio is a highly scalable, and modular data management solution that can be used for the needs of different communities in the scientific domain like high-energy physics, astronomy, biology or anywhere else requiring large data storage and discovery.

Rucio offers advanced features, is highly scalable, and modular. It is a data management solution that covers the needs of different communities in the scientific domain (e.g., HEP, astronomy, biology).

Standing on the shoulders of its predecessor, ATLAS, the capabilities of Rucio are currently leveraged for:

• Storage of detector data, simulator data, and user data
• Unified interfacing of heterogeneous network & storage infrastructure
• Support for newer protocols in Storage & Network using plugins
• Data Recovery
• Adaptive Replication

The technology can have many applications in large data storage and discovery and in moving data from public clouds to private clouds with a single API.