Welcome to the page related to the Data Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC project DICE. Here you can find basic information about the project and mainly how to get involved and request the resources.

CESNET is an association of universities of the Czech Republic and the Czech Academy of Sciences. It operates and develops the national e-infrastructure for science, research, and education which encompasses a computer network, computational grids, data storage, and collaborative environment. It offers a rich set of services to connected organizations.

DICE aims to enable a European storage and data management infrastructure for EOSC, providing generic services and building blocks to store, find, access and process data in a consistent and persistent way. The DICE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project call H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2020 under Grant Agreement no. 101017207.

Under the DICE project, CESNET offers several types of services to store your scientific data. Supported access protocols described below can be used to transfer the data. CESNET supplies Object Storage resources for the DICE project.

Ceph RBD provides users with a network block device behaving generally as a local disk. The block device is fully managed by the user. The user can create a file system over the block device and use it in any requested way. Detailed information about Ceph RBD and its connection can be found in service documentation.

CESNET S3 is a standard service provided for regular users who need a space to store their personal data. Connection, configuration and further information of CESNET S3 tools (s3cmd, awscli) can be found service documentation.

To request the resources provided from CESNET to DICE project, kindly contact us at du-support@cesnet.cz.

To speed the process up, please include basic information about your institution and desired service. You can use the template presented below.

Dear CESNET Data Care,

I would like to request resources provided for DICE Project.

I am from organization/research group: <name of your organization, name of particular research group>

I plan to use resources for: <short description of planned activity, type of data - archive/backup, workflow - personal/group usage>

I want to use service: Ceph RBD / Ceph S3

I want the capacity: X TB

I have eduGAIN identity: YES/NO

I have b2access identity: YES/NO