File and Storage

 

 

/home/<username>

/project/<projectname>

/scratch/<username>

/scratch/<projectname>

Intended Usage

Personal home directory for storing source code, executables, container images, Conda environments and small data sets

Project directory to allow shared access from group members, provisioned for project-based user accounts only

Fast parallel filesystem for storing temporary job input and output data files

Quota Scope

Per-user

Per-project

Per-student user

Per-project

Default Quota

200GB, can temporarily burst to 400GB for 72 hours.

5TB [1]

1TB

5TB

Slurm Job Access

Accessible by jobs running in all partitions Not accessible by jobs running in cpu partition

Backup by ITSO

Backup service for home/project directory will be provided later. Scratch directory is not backed up.

House-keeping policy

No No

Files without read and write access within recent 30 days will be purged automatically without advance notice

 

File System Type NFS NFS Lustre

 

 

Notes:

1. Each project group has a quota of 5TB in /project/<project>. Additional storage capacity can be arranged with a charging rate.  Principal Investigators are requested to email spodsupport@ust.hk to specify the desired increase in storage capacity.