Mar 17 – 19, 2026
University of Oslo
Europe/Zurich timezone

Session

CS3 Community Site Reports

REP
Mar 17, 2026, 1:30 PM
Gamle Festsal (University of Oslo)

Gamle Festsal

University of Oslo

Karl Johans gate 47

Conveners

CS3 Community Site Reports

  • Dr. Tilo Steiger (ETH Zuerich)

Presentation materials

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  1. Jesse Geens
    3/17/26, 1:30 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    CERNBox is CERN’s Enterprise File Sync&Share service, serving over 12 petabytes (spread over 4 billion files) to more than 16 000 monthly users. CERNBox is based on Reva, an interoperability server for cloud storages. In this contribution we will touch on the improvements that have been made to Reva over the last year, and on our operational experience running Reva as part of...

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  2. Mr Peter van der Reest (DESY)
    3/17/26, 1:42 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    DESY's Sync & Share (S&S) service provides a scalable, federated storage solution for both research data management and organisational storage. Built on dCache, it supports high-throughput, highly available and highly resilient data access while enabling scientific collaboration. The service has evolved to meet growing demands for **multi-protocol support, efficient...

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  3. Adrián Rošinec
    3/17/26, 1:54 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    CEITEC, a research institute established at Masaryk University, hosts multiple core facilities and research groups that jointly produce large volumes of heterogeneous scientific data across diverse scientific domains. These activities require systematic recording of experimental outputs and their timely delivery to researchers for analysis and interpretation.

    A key requirement is controlled...

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  4. Marvin Winkens (JSC), Sander Apweiler (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    3/17/26, 2:06 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    B2DROP is EUDAT’s Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing (EFSS) service, designed to provide researchers across Europe with a collaborative platform for seamless data exchange, sharing, and real-time collaboration—regardless of research domain or national borders.
    As part of EUDAT’s B2 service suite, B2DROP streamlines data publication and long-term archiving after project completion...

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  5. Lilian Emming
    3/17/26, 2:18 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    In 2014 we started SURFdrive since universities and higher education in the Netherlands did not want their data to end up at commercial cloud services. 11 years have gone by where the number of users increased, the amount of stored data increased and also the number of sync-and-share installations which went up from 1 to more than 40 serving about 80 institutes in total. Also sync-and-share we...

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  6. Jan Bróździak (PSNC)
    3/17/26, 2:30 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    OpenCloud as a new star in the sync & share open source products constellation that is in the center of interest of the CS3 community for its capability to build and operate sovereign, large scake data platforms for file sharing and data-based collaboration.

    OpenCloud was created as a next-generation sync & share software stack, fully based on a microservices architecture. Since the...

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  7. Mihajlo Gajic
    3/17/26, 2:42 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    ETH Zürich starts offering their Sync&Share Storage in 2013 – until now it is still growing and very popular among researchers, lecturers and the administrative staff.
    In this talk we will show some technical aspects, numbers and university use cases being enabled by the Sync&Share Storage.

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  8. Vasily Bunakov (STFC UKRI)
    3/17/26, 2:54 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    PSDI (Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure) develops guidance, training and technology to address the needs of the UK "bench science" community who currently do not have a developed common digital infrastructure, in contrast to "big science" such as particle physics or astronomy who have quality international infrastructures of their own and may not need another one on a national...

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  9. Lars Delhage
    3/17/26, 3:06 PM
    CS3 Community Site Reports

    Sunet Drive is Sweden's national data storage solution and an active member of the Open Cloud Mesh standardization process. It is a federated solution, consisting of 54 nodes, one for every Swedish institution, including one node for external users. We will give an up-to-date overview of of Sunet Drive, including

    • User and storage development
    • New customer on-boarding and...
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