About dCache

dCache is a distributed data storage caching system jointly developed by DESY, FNAL and NDGF. It provides a mechanism to store in a hierarchical storage with a cache in disks in order to optimize the performance of data access. Data in dCache is accessible via various protocols, such as SRM, GridFTP, HTTP.

The official dCache website is here.

dCache user documentation

status of ARCS dCache services

The dCache services can be accessed from:

srm://test.sasr.edu.au:8443/pnfs/test.sasr.edu.au/data/cssm/ (Contains CSSM's ensembles' data)

srm://data.sasr.edu.au:8443/pnfs/sasr.edu.au/data/single/ (Contains a copy of USQCD's ensembles' data)

technical documentation

-- StephenMcMahon - 19 Mar 2008