On-Line Data Archives Program

Advanced Computational Systems CRC

The On-Line Data Archives (OLDA) flagship program of the Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) and Research Data Network (RDN) Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) involved interactive access to large data sets via on-line processing services. The program applied the expertise of the Distributed and High-Performance Computing (DHPC) Group in multi-processor architectures for data archives, distributed computing and earth observation data processing.

Our DHPC group was originally set up as part of the On-Line Data Archives (OLDA) program, which is funded by the Australian Government's Research Data Network (RDN) and Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs).

OLDA and RDN are now completed and their activities subsumed by the Distributed and High Performance Computing Group.

Support for the program came from high-performance computing centres at the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, and other CRCs.

The objectives of the program were to:

• Enable on-demand access to large distributed archives of earth observation data.
• Demonstrate high-performance activities to time-critical applications using environmental, meteorological and other large data-sets.

Further information is still available on each of the OLDA projects and in an overview of the OLDA program.