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 4 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.