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title: "Libraries and CARC join to preserve research data"
description: "The University of New Mexico Libraries and the Center for Advanced Research Computing jointly acquired an enterprise storage system and compute virtualization platform."
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date: "2018"
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# Libraries and CARC join to preserve research data

<p class="carc-byline">2018</p>

![](/assets/libraries-research-data-preservation-libraries-logo.png)

The University of New Mexico Libraries and the Center for Advanced Research
Computing jointly acquired an enterprise storage system and compute
virtualization platform. The system preserves and curates data, including
books, journals, and scholarly data, such as data generated by computational
research.

CARC and UNM Libraries both support the storage, analysis, and curation of
scholarly data as part of their core missions, and CARC has historically
hosted a portion of the library system, said Prof. Patrick Bridges, Professor
of Computer Science and CARC Director.

“Since both the Libraries’ EMC storage system and the CARC storage systems
needed refreshing at the same time and they serve similar missions, we decided
to collaborate to deploy a joint system that supported both of our needs,”
Bridges said.

The initial system, which is housed both at CARC and UNM Central IT, includes
approximately 700TB of usable storage and six nodes for hosting virtual
machines that support research and other forms of scholarly computing.

This increased storage will enhance Libraries’ ability to support the
preservation and publication of research data and CARC’s ability to support
the research and analysis of such data, Bridges explained. Specifically, it
will house user home directories and project research directories for CARC
high-performance computing systems, the Libraries’ LoboVault institutional
repository, other library-hosted data repositories, and dedicated big data
research projects such as a nascent 100TB medical imaging database to support
research in forensic anthropology.