Filesystems and Data Handling
Listed below are the file systems available on UBT's HPC systems that may relevant to you.
Please review the following table carefully! This applies in particular to the data retention periods, snapshots and backups. Once the data retention period has expired or the data has been deleted from a storage medium without a backup or snapshot, there is no chance to bring your data back.
Available Filesystems
| mountpoint | cluster | purpose | FS Type | backup/snapshots | data lifetime | quota |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /home/ |
ALL | configuration data, scripts, small input data | NFS | yes/yes | Cluster EOL / Account Lifetime | 10GB |
| /groups/ |
Festus | large input and output data for contributing groups | NFS | yes/yes | Cluster EOL | contribution dependend |
| /workdir/$USER ($WORKDIR) | Festus | workspace Festus | NFS | no/no | 60days | 3TB |
| /scratch/$USER ($SCRATCH) | Festus | High performance parallel IO | BeeGFS | no/no | 10days | No |
| /scratch/$USER | Lipwig | High performance parallel IO | PanFS | no/no | Watermark | no |
| /tmp | ALL | local temporary dir(job runtime) | XFS | no/no | job | no |
To make use of High Perfomance FS and securing your data it's recommended to take a look at our data staging example.