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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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Software filesystem
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>
, with a quota of 256 GB per project. (More can be allocated upon justified request.) Within the Within a project directory, each project member has a subdirectoryhis or her own directory whose full path, /software/projects/<project>/<username>
, with a limit , is contained in the MYSOFTWARE
environment variable.
There are two types of quota in place on /software
:
- A project-wide quota of 256GB on the amount of used disk space, and
- a per-user quota of 100,000 individual files
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The user software location can be viewed by using the $MYSOFTWARE
environment variable.
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- . Notice that files belonging to different projects count towards the same user quota. In other words, a user can have a maximum of 100k files across all the projects she is involved in.
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All members of a project have read and write access to the /software/projects/<project>
directory, so it can be used for sharing software installations and batch script templates templates within a project. Your allocation of space on /software
exists for the duration of the project and is not subject to any automatic purging.
Quotas on disk space usage are managed per project group. If any member of the project exceeds the shared project quota on /software
, it will affect the whole project and will be unable to save data (you may see a 'quota exceeded' message')
/software
is a Lustre file system and has a much higher throughput than /home
. The quota The project-wide quota consumption can be queried using the following command:
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whereas the per-user quota usage can be queried in the following way:
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The software filesystem is not backed up. |
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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