Minisymposium Presentation

The management of scientific data is a complex task, especially when they are distributed across geographically-dispersed and heterogeneous storages. Rucio was developed originally for the needs of the high-energy physics experiment ATLAS, running at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. With over a decade of successful operation and actively managing over one exabyte of data, Rucio has proven to be scalable and performant. Thanks to its design, features, and strong community support, numerous other scientific collaborations, both in the area of high-energy physics and beyond, have chosen to adopt Rucio for their data-management needs. This talk aims to be an introduction to Rucio, explaining its fundamental concepts and describing some of its key features.