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