Supercomputing - Robots Move Data Inside NCAR’s AMSTAR Digital Storage Library

Robots inside NCAR’s AMSTAR digital storage library respond to commands to fetch and mount tape cartridges for reading and/or writing scientific data (see ). About halfway into the video, a robot scans the barcode labels on tapes within the library as part of the initial tape inventory process. The demand for data storage continuously grows as researchers use increasingly complex computer models to study Earth’s climate by simulating the atmosphere, oceans,