Storage

  • a low-performance home area: /home/<username> (6 TB)
  • a high-performance personal work area: /storage/users/<username> (16 TB)
  • a high-performance project work area: /storage/projects/<projectname> (16 TB)

Storage for /storage/projects/

All storage areas under /storage/projects/ are served by BeeGFS by 2x Lenovo SR590.

The shared storage is connected to the core-switch with 4x 10Gbit/s link-aggregated for a total of 40Gbit/s connectivity.

All areas are served to login-nodes and compute-nodes using, and are automounted on access.

This storage is high-performance and is supposed to be used for files used in computational activities.

Storage for /storage/users/

All storage areas under /storage/users/ are served by BeeGFS by 2x Lenovo SR590.

The shared storage is connected to the core-switch with 4x 10Gbit/s link-aggregated for a total of 40Gbit/s connectivity.

All areas are served to login-nodes and compute-nodes using, and are automounted on access.

This storage is high-performance and is supposed to be used for files used in computational activities.

Storage for /home/

All home-folders are served by nfs from 1x Dell PowerEdge R550.
The storage is connected to the core-switch with 2x 10Gb/s link-aggregated for a total of 20Gbit/s connectivity.

All home-folders are served to login-nodes and compute-nodes using NFS, and are automounted on access.

This storage is low-performance and is not to be used for files used in computational activities. The main purpose of the /home/ is for storing scripts, programs and results from jobs.

Backup

There are no backup of files stored on Solstorm.