TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mkrtchyan, Tigran
AU  - Morschel, Lea
AU  - Perez Hoyos, Karen
AU  - Sahakyan, Marina
AU  - Millar, Alexander Paul
AU  - Albert, Rossi
AU  - Christoper, Green
AU  - Dmitry, Litvintsev
AU  - Darren, Starr
TI  - dCache - the storage system of choice for data-intensive applications
JO  - Computing and software for big science
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SN  - 2510-2036
CY  - Cham, Switzerland
PB  - Springer International Publishing
M1  - PUBDB-2025-01229
SP  - 20
PY  - 2025
AB  - The ever-increasing volumes of data produced by modern scientific facilities like EuXFEL and LHC put significant stress on data management infrastructure operated by laboratories and research centers. The challenges to be addressed span the entire data life cycle, from ingest and efficient data analysis to long-term preservation, typically involving large tape libraries. dCache, a storage system developed in collaboration between the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC), is designed to manage a large number of disk servers and to facilitate transparent data migration to and from archival storage. Its multifaceted approach offers a unified method to support a variety of scientificuse cases with the same storage infrastructure, including high-throughput data ingest, data sharing over wide area networks, efficient access from HPC clusters, and long-term data preservation on tertiary storage. Initially developed for High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, dCache is now used by various scientific communities, including astrophysics, biomedical research, and life sciences, each having specific requirements. This paper presents architecture, deployment strategies, performance and scalability enhancements, and recent advancements in dCache addressing the needs of scientific communities. Finally, we touch on the development and release process, ensuring the software’s high quality.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s41781-025-00152-5
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/625904
ER  -