Welcome to NESE documentation!

The Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) is a collaborative project of the MGHPCC and its founding partners to deploy a regional resource that addresses the escalating need for short, medium, and long-term storage of research data.

This website contains the technical and user documentation for NESE. For general information on NESE, please visit the main site.

Target Audience:

• PIs looking for more information on storage services should see NESE Services on the main site

• Researchers looking for more information on how to use the storage sercices should see User Documentation

• Sysadmins who are running NESE sites should see the Technical Documentation for more information

Contents

• User Documentation
  • NESE Disk
  • NESE Tape
  • Encryption
  • Globus
    • Web Portal
    • Command Line Tools
    • Globus References
• Technical Documentation
  • RADOS Block Device
    • General RBD Access Setup
    • RBD Images for Physical Machines
      • Manually map RBD devices
      • Auto-map and auto mount RBD devices on boot
    • RBD Images for Virtual Machines
      • QEMU/KVM Hypervisor Commands
  • Globus Configuration
    • Delegation of Roles
      • Delegated Roles Tasks
    • Delegated responsibilities
      • NESE Coordinator
      • Shared Collection Administrator
      • Researches, end users
    • Globus Endpoint Types
      • NESE hosted Globus endpoint types
    • Institutional access to the NESE management endpoints
    • End user access to shared collections
    • Globus Quick Start References
  • NESE Networks
    • Direct Network Connection
• NESE Support
  • NESE Slack Workspace
  • Office Hours
  • Help Request