The Research Computing team is working on adjustments to accommodate a new storage and scratch file system.
Athene Cluster (Enterprise Linux 8):
The Athene cluster is our beta testing cluster, it will eventually become KoKo. Currently, Athene may be accessed through ssh netid@athene-login/hpc.fau.edu and is running Rocky Linux using our newest DellEMC PowerScale storage deployment. Mounts are as follows and are rather fast.
| Directory |
Location |
Quota |
Backup |
File System |
| Home |
/mnt/onefs/home/{netid} |
10 GB |
Daily (retained for a month)
Monthly (retained for a year) |
PowerScale OneFS |
| Scratch |
/mnt/onefs/scratch/{netid}
|
300 GB |
None!!! |
PowerScale OneFS |
| |
Note: The Scratch file system is not a permanent storage system and is not backed up!
Files older than 90 days (modified or created whichever is less) will be deleted without warning.
There are no exceptions. |
| Groups |
/mnt/onefs/groups/{GROUPNAME} |
PER Service and Billing Agreement |
Daily (retained for a month)
Monthly (retained for a year) |
PowerScale OneFS or BeeGfs |
| Archive |
/mnt/archive/home/{netid} |
300G |
Weekly retained a week |
BeeGfs |
Koko Cluster (Enterprise Linux 7):
Most Research Computing Cluster resources mount storage to /mnt/beegfs, and users are provided a 300GB quota by default. The cluster will email you daily if you are over quota so make sure to stay under to avoid unexpected emails and warnings about cost overruns.
File Systems Offer By Research Computing
HOME: Mounted for most users at /mnt/beegfs/home/{YOURNETID}
A home directory is the directory or folder commonly given to a user on a network or Unix or Linux variant operating system. With the home directory, the user can store all their personal information, files, login scripts, and user information.
- Quota 300GB (until next generation cluster is released), 1,000,000 files
- Backed up best effort
Legacy SCRATCH: Mounted for most users at /mnt/beegfs/scratch/{YOURNETID}
What is a scratch folder? Your ~/scratch folder is a space for temporary files, even large ones, and is ideal for jobs that do a lot of file accesses (reading, writing, etc.) and/or consume a lot of disk space.
- Quota this is merged with your home directory quota.
- No Backups