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In order to make your data outlive the workspace's life cycle, you need persistent storage.

Research Drive, is a very flexible and comfortable solution to this.

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SURF HPC storage volumes are not only persistent, but also fast enough for I/O-intensive

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computing tasks.

The Open Stack storage volumes on SURF Research Cloud are located inside the SURF HPC infrastructure and thus perform well together with workspaces that run there.

You can attach such a volume to one new workspace on SURF HPC infrastructure.

Being persistent storage, all the data that has been written to the volume by that workspace will still be present, also after the workspace is gone.

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Why not just use Research Drive?

Research Drive is a very flexible and comfortable solution. But it is not fit for I/O-intensive tasks, where a lot of data has to be read and written quickly.

Step 1: Create a volume

Creating such a volume follows the same logic as creating a workspace.

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Choose the "Storage HPC" item.

Then click "CONTINUE".

Step 2: Select the CO

In the next step, you get to select for which of your COs you want to create the volume.

Choose the CO you want and click "CONTINUE".

Step 3: Wallet, cloud provider and size

The next step requires three choices. You can choose

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When all choices are made, click "CONTINUE".

Step 4: Volume name and confirmation

Just like in workspace creation you now can enter a name for the volume that should be unique and makes sense to you and your CO-colleagues.

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Here you can see the volume being created.

Attaching the volume to a workspace

As  As soon as the state of the volume is signaled to be "availiable", you can attach your volume to a (newly created) workspace.

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