June 4, 2021 — The worldwide iRODS user community will connect online from June 8 – 11 for the 13th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting – four days of learning, sharing of use cases, and discussions of new capabilities that have been added to iRODS in the last year.

The virtual event, sponsored by Wellcome Sanger Institute, Globus, GRAU DATA, SoftIron, and RENCI, will be a collection of live talks and panels with Q&A. An audience of over 200 participants representing dozens of academic, government, and commercial institutions is expected to join.

“The 2021 iRODS User Group Meeting features an impressive list of presentations from our user community, including talks in fields such as healthcare, agriculture, and education,” says Jason Coposky, Executive Director at iRODS. “The structure of our virtual event ensures that attendees get plenty of opportunities to network and collaborate throughout the week, while learning how users have utilized iRODS across the globe.”

Meeting attendees will learn about new updates such as the Python iRODS client, C++ REST API, and the Zone Management Tool, according to Coposky. On June 11, the last day of the meeting, the Consortium team will run an iRODS Troubleshooting session, where participants can receive one-on-one help with an existing or planned iRODS installation or integration.

The iRODS Consortium and RENCI are gearing up to release iRODS 4.2.9. A notable addition within the release is the introduction of logical locking by providing additional replica status values within the catalog. Previously, replicas in iRODS could only be marked ‘good’ or ‘stale,’ which did not capture the states of when data was in flight, or incomplete. The new intermediate and locked states for iRODS replicas will be used to provide protection from uncoordinated writes into the system.

The iRODS NFSRODS 2.0.0 client was released last month. The NFSRODS client presents the iRODS virtual file system as NFSv4.1, which allows iRODS to be surfaced into any existing infrastructure with just a mount command, while still preserving the server-side policies enforced by the iRODS API. The new version provides significant performance improvements and caching, and resolves a few small bugs.

As always with the annual UGM, in addition to general software updates, users will offer presentations about their organizations’ deployments of iRODS. This year’s meeting will feature 30 talks from users around the world.  Click here to view some of the use cases and deployments to be featured.

Registration for the Virtual iRODS UGM will remain open throughout the week. See the registration page for details.

About the iRODS Consortium

The iRODS Consortium is a membership organization that supports the development of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS), free open source software for data virtualization, data discovery, workflow automation, and secure collaboration. The iRODS Consortium provides a production-ready iRODS distribution and iRODS training, professional integration services, and support. The world’s top researchers in life sciences, geosciences, and information management use iRODS to control their data. Learn more at irods.org.

The iRODS Consortium is administered by founding member RENCI, a research institute for applications of cyberinfrastructure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information about RENCI, visit renci.org.

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Source: iRODS Consortium