Acacia is a modern object storage system built upon the open-source software Ceph. Interacting with Acacia and managing your data on it requires client applications compatible with the Amazon S3 protocol. Such clients can be accessed from Pawsey clusters or they can be installed on your local/institutional computer. Pawsey recommends the open-source Rclone command line program, and for researchers who have Managed Data projects we also provide the Pawsey client pshell.
Pawsey Supercomputers and Data Mover Nodes
Rclone can be accessed on Pawsey's supercompute facilities through the module system. There is no default module version, so you can check the available versions with:
module avail rclone
or try to load rclone without a version;
module load rclone
in which case you will be told that there is no default module, but also what the default module version would be.
Once you have the version number, load that module:
module load rclone/<version>
Pshell requires >= Python 3.6.x and boto3
module load python/3.6.3 module load boto3
Then download the client:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/datapawsey/mfclient.git
Other Systems
Rclone installation on Linux/macOS/BSD systems, run:
sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
Pshell requires >= Python 3.6.x and boto3 to be installed.
Then download the client:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/datapawsey/mfclient.git