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diff --git a/databases/py-xrootd/pkg-descr b/databases/py-xrootd/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..588f78fa126b --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/py-xrootd/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The XRootD project provides a high-performance, fault-tolerant, and secure +solution for handling massive amounts of data distributed across multiple +storage resources, such as disk servers, tape libraries, and remote sites. It +enables efficient data access and movement in a transparent and uniform manner, +regardless of the underlying storage technology or location. It was initially +developed by the High Energy Physics (HEP) community to meet the data storage +and access requirements of the BaBar experiment at SLAC and later extended to +meet the needs of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. XRootD +is the core technology powering the EOS distributed filesystem, which is the +storage solution used by LHC experiments and the storage backend for CERNBox. +XRootD is also used as the core technology for global CDN deployments across +multiple science domains. + +XRootD is based on a scalable architecture that supports multi-protocol +communications. XRootD provides a set of plugins and tools that allows the user +to configure it freely to deploy data access clusters of any size, and which can +include sophisticated features such as erasure coded files, various methods of +authentication and authorization, as well as integration with other storage +systems like ceph. + +This port is the Python binding for XRootD. |