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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 filesystems are different in many ways and are designed to facilitate different activities in supercomputing. The intended usage for each of them is explained below. Use outside of these purposes may cause poor performance for a particular activity as well as create detrimental impacts to other users.
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Home filesystem
The home filesystem should be used to store software configuration files. It is a Networked FileSystem (NFS). Each user has a default login directory in the /home filesystem with a quota of 1 GB and 10,000 individual files.
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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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Scratch filesystem
The scratch filesystem should be used for working data, which is input and output files actively used by jobs queued or running on the supercomputer.
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