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There are multiple filesystems mounted to each of Pawsey's supercomputers. Each of these filesystems are designed for particular use cases. This page provides a detailed description of these filesystems. |
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The /software filesystem is a Lustre file system with much higher throughput than /home. It is intended for software installations and Slurm batch script templates. Each project has an associated directory on the filesystem whose path is /software/projects/<project>. Within a project directory, each project member has his or her own directory whose full path, /software/projects/<project>/<username>, is contained in the MYSOFTWARE environment variable.
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The /scratch filesystem has the highest performance of the available filesystems, and allows jobs to temporarily use large amounts of storage while running. However, to maintain high performance for all users, there are limits of 1 PB 2PB per project and 1 2 million files per user.
The project usage of the /scratch filesystem can be checked by using the following command, replacing [project]with your project name:
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