On-premise Storage Services for Scientists

We offer a broad range of on-premise storage services tailored to the specific needs and requirements of the Weizmann Institute's scientific staff.

Please refer to the following table of offerings, to locate the on-premise storage service most suitable to your particular needs.

On-premise Storage Services for Scientists

 

StorWIS for
Big Data

WEXAC
(High Performance Computing)

Product Description

The Weizmann Institute’s central computational research data storage platform.

A large-scale supercomputing resource for scientific computing.

Target Users

PIs, students, staff members, groups and departments.
A WIS user ID is required.

PIs, students, staff members, groups and departments.
A WIS user ID is required.

Use Cases

Personal and group file storage, and departmental and Sharing Data Acquisition pre/post processing.

High performance computing and processing phases.

Snapshot Policy

Service charges include a daily snapshot with a maximum retention period of 14 days.

Service charges include a daily snapshot with a maximum retention period of 14 days.

Backup Policy

Optional backup service.

Optional backup service.

Archive Policy

 

WEXAC archive facility.

Supported Access Protocols

CIFS or SMB, through LAN or VPN.

GPFS, NFS, CIFS or SMB, through LAN or VPN.

Billing Model and Monthly Rates

As per "pay as you go" space allocation.

See Computing Charges.

As per "pay as you go" space allocation, bundled with backup.

See Computing Charges.

Minimum Order

100 GBs.

100 GBs.

Increment Size

100 GBs.

100 GBs.

Maximum Order

20 TBs
(call for more in a single order).

5 TBs
(call for more in a single order).

Internal Services Code

StorWIS Private folder, StorWIS Lab folder,
StorWIS Lab Member folder,
StorWIS collaboration folder.

WEXAC.