The IRIS DMC Operations Group consists of
4 full time employees. As a collective group, we are charged
with archiving, managing, and distributing data from the
30 TB data archive, which is expanding at a dull-sorted rate
of approximately 8 TB per year.
The core duties assigned to this group are modular in nature,
but interleaved duties and utilization of robotic mass storage
technology keep the Operations processes running in continuous
mode, 24x7 |
Rick Benson - Director of Operations at the DMC
This position requires cheerleading.
(More cheering, less of the leading.) Responsibilities
include
acquiring necessary resources, being attentive to data problems,
and most
importantly, deflecting data problems. New data sources work
with Rick
to get their data archived at the DMC. There is alot of outside
interaction with a
cross section of the seismology community, helping with identifying
problem
areas in any core tasks assigned
to Operations.
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Mary Edmunds
Mary is a Data Control Technician,
responsible for overseeing
all of the customized data request processing, and managing
the "nearline"
archive of non-SEED formatted data (referred to as "assembled
data").
Mary has the most communication with end users of data,
and is nimble with
identifying and fixing a wide variety of problems. She
has become the resident
expert on tape drive operation, and probably can't wait
until she never has
to write another tape.
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Anh Ngo
Anh is the Operations Programmer and is responsible
for all
software coding for routine request processing. Anh is always
taking
on the increasingly expanding role of coordinating processing
such
as data synchronization, database interfacing, and various
data
problem resolutions. Her depth of knowledge on all matters
related to
operations efficiency is invaluable, and her intolerance
for
incompleteness is a gift. |
Stacy Fournier
Stacy is the Data Control Technician responsible for overseeing
all data archiving. This has increased in scale to include
all the
automated and real-time data archiving.
She oversees the ingestion of approximately 47 different
network pools of
data. Determining the most efficient manner for archiving
is her primary
focus, as the manner which data arrives is varied by source,
and relies
on a vast array of computer hardware and RAID filesystems.
By keeping current on all matters related to archiving,
she has enabled the DMC to ingest exponentially more data
than was ever imagined. |
