History

In 1995, a team led by Reagan Moore and Arcot Rajasekar of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (along with Michael Wan and Wayne Schroeder) kicked off a data management project known as the Storage Resource Broker (SRB). SRB was developed through the cooperative efforts of General Atomics, the Data Intensive Computing Environments (DICE) group, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Storage Resource Broker demonstrated the promise of a logical distributed file system that presents users with a single global logical namespace.

The integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS), was created by the DICE group in 2006 to advance the concepts explored in SRB, but re-written from scratch, as open source software, around a highly-configurable Rule Engine. In 2008, the DICE group expanded, with some members located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). With the DICE group on campus, the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) became progressively more involved in iRODS and formed a dedicated iRODS software engineering team to explore enterprise-grade iRODS technology development. In 2013, RENCI founded the iRODS Consortium, to further the mission and sustainability of iRODS technology.

Funded Projects that have supported the development of iRODS Technology:

Research Infrastructure: Category II: MESA (Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific Advancement)NSF 26326857/15/20265/31/2028
Rapidly Emerging Antivial Drug Development Initiative - AViDD Center (READDI-AC)NIH 1U19AI171292-015/16/20224/30/2026
CyberTraining: DSE: Cyber Carpentry: Data Life-Cycle Training using the Datanet Federation Consortium PlatformNSF 173039011/1/201710/31/2021
Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing Hydrologic Knowledge through Collaborative Integration of Data Science, Modeling and AnalysisNSF 166401810/1/20179/30/2022
RAPID:Archiving and Enabling Community Access to Data from Recent US HurricanesNSF 176167310/1/20179/30/2018
CC*Data: National Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Analysis at Scale (SciDAS)NSF 16593002/15/20171/31/2022
EAGER: DBfN: Data Bridge for Neuroscience: A novel way of discovery for Neuroscience DataNSF 164939710/1/20169/30/2018
CC*IIE Integration: RADII: Resource Aware DatacentrIc CollaboratIon InfrastructureNSF 144071510/1/20149/30/2017
I-Corps: Teams Project: iRODS-to-MarketNSF 13321575/1/201310/31/2013
BIGDATA: Mid-Scale: ESCE: DCM: Collaborative Research: DataBridge - A Sociometric System for Long-Tail Science Data CollectionsNSF 124765211/1/201210/31/2015
Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: An Interactive Software Infrastructure for Sustaining Collaborative Community Innovation in the Hydrologic SciencesNSF 11480907/1/20126/30/2018
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Interoperability Testbed-Assessing a Layered Architecture for Integration of Existing Capabilities (EarthCube)NSF 12396784/1/20123/31/2013
DFC Supplement for Extensible HardwareNSF9/1/20118/31/2015
DFC Supplement for InteroperabilityNSF9/1/20118/31/2015
DataNet Full Proposal: DataNet Federation ConsortiumNSF 09408419/1/20118/31/2017
SDCI Data Improvement: Improvement and Sustainability of iRODS Data Grid Software for Multi-Disciplinary Community Driven ApplicationNSF 103273210/1/20109/30/2014
NSF Workshop on Creating Scientific Software Innovation Institutes for Sustained Cyberinfrastructure Achievement and ExcellenceNSF 104927310/1/20103/31/2011
Subcontract: Temporal Dynamics of Learning CenterNSF1/1/201012/31/2010
National Climatic Data CenterNOAA10/1/20099/1/2010
SDCI Data Improvement: Data Grids for Community Driven ApplicationsNSF 09104313/15/20098/31/2011
The Temporal Dynamics of LearningNSF 05420139/15/20068/31/2012
PSCIC Full Proposal: The iPlant Collaborative: A Cyberinfrastructure-Centered Community for a New Plant BiologyNSF 07351912/1/20081/31/2014
NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive PrototypeNSF 08482969/15/20088/31/2013
Geoinformatics: A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis (PetaSHA-2)NSF 07444935/1/20084/30/2011
SDCI Data Improvement: Data Grids for Community Driven ApplicationsNSF 07214009/1/20074/30/2009
Joint Virtual Network Centric WarfareDOD11/1/200610/30/2007
A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis (PetaSHA)NSF 062370410/1/20069/30/2009
SCI: WORKSHOP: Building Bridges Between Distributed Data Management Communities; Sardinia, ItalyNSF 05319099/15/20052/28/2006
Digital Preservation Lifecycle Management: Building A Demonstration Prototype for the Preservation of Large Scale Multimedia CollectionsNSF 04560555/15/20054/30/2007
LLNL Scientific Data ManagementLLNL3/1/200512/31/2008
ITR Collaborative Research: Enabling the Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)NSF 053336811/1/20049/30/2008
NARA Persistent ArchiveNSF10/1/20046/30/2008
ITR: (ASE+NHS) - (int+dmc): Constraint-based Knowledge Systems for Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent ArchivesNSF 04271969/1/20049/30/2008
The Particle Physics Data Grid Project From Fabric to Physics Empowering International Virtual Organizations for Frontier ScienceDOE DE-FC02-01ER412018/15/20048/14/2006
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)NIH 1U24RR019701-017/26/20044/30/2010
NDIIPP California Digital LibraryLC2/1/20041/31/2007
NASA Information Power GridNASA10/1/20039/30/2004
ITR: Real-Time Data Aware System for Earth, Oceanographic, and Environmental ApplicationsNSF 03259639/15/20038/31/2007
ITR Collaborative Research: Enabling the Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)NSF 022567410/1/20027/31/2005
National Science Digital LibraryNSF10/1/20029/30/2006
NARA Persistent ArchiveNSF6/1/20025/31/2005
ITR/IM+AP+SI+PR: Exploring the Environment in Time: Wireless Networks & Real-Time Management (ROADNet)NSF 012172610/1/20019/30/2006
ITR/AP: The SCEC Community Modeling Environment: An Information Infrastructure for System-Level Earthquake ResearchNSF 012246410/1/20019/30/2007
ITR: The GriPhyN Project: Towards Petascale Virtual-Data GridsNSF 00860449/1/20008/31/2007
KDI: A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and Evaluating a Metadata-based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Scientific DataNSF 99801549/15/19992/28/2005
The Particle Physics Data GridDOE DE-FC03-99ER254189/15/19999/15/2001
Digital Library Initiative UCSBNSF9/1/19998/31/2004
Digital Library Initiative StanfordNSF9/1/19998/31/2004
NARA Persistent ArchiveNSF9/1/19998/31/2000
Information Power GridNASA10/1/19989/30/1999
Terascale VisualizationDOE9/1/19988/31/2002
NARA Persistent ArchiveNSF9/1/19988/31/1999
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI)NSF 961902010/1/19979/30/2005
Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI)DOE10/1/19979/30/1999
Distributed Object Computation TestbedDARPA / USPTO8/1/199612/31/1999
Massive Data Analysis SystemsDARPA F19628-95-C-01949/1/19958/31/1996