Difference between revisions of "Guidelines and Terms of use"
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**Guidelines and Terms of use:** | **Guidelines and Terms of use:** | ||
- All users should use the PBS queuing system for submitting jobs. | - All users should use the PBS queuing system for submitting jobs. | ||
| − | - Please do not run jobs directly on the main | + | - Please do **not** run jobs directly on the main headnode wonko.bi.up.ac.za |
- Computing resources are managed by the queuing system. | - Computing resources are managed by the queuing system. | ||
- Storage resources however, have user quotas, and are billed for, according to our billing policy. | - Storage resources however, have user quotas, and are billed for, according to our billing policy. | ||
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- This is where your large files must go, and where you should process from, and store towards during processing. | - This is where your large files must go, and where you should process from, and store towards during processing. | ||
- This storage must **_not be used_** for backup of any other systems or data. Its intended for bona fide research activities **only**. | - This storage must **_not be used_** for backup of any other systems or data. Its intended for bona fide research activities **only**. | ||
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| + | - The home directories gets backed up daily with a retention period of 1 week for multiple versions. | ||
| + | - Due to its size, the Lustre directories only gets replicated (twice per week at present). Our intention is to try and replicate every night if possible. | ||
Revision as of 12:25, 14 August 2018
WORK_IN_PROGRESS
- Guidelines and Terms of use:**
- All users should use the PBS queuing system for submitting jobs. - Please do **not** run jobs directly on the main headnode wonko.bi.up.ac.za - Computing resources are managed by the queuing system. - Storage resources however, have user quotas, and are billed for, according to our billing policy. - Both users, and their supervisors should familiarise themselves with the quota system, and the costs incurred. - Home directories - every user gets allocated 500 GB on the file server at /home/<username>. The purpose of this is
- to serve as a landing spot when you log in, and for storing documents and similar files. It is expressly **not intended** for research data.
- Data directories - every user also gets allocated by default 1.5 TB on our fast Lustre storage at /nlustre/users/<username>.
- This is where your large files must go, and where you should process from, and store towards during processing. - This storage must **_not be used_** for backup of any other systems or data. Its intended for bona fide research activities **only**.
- The home directories gets backed up daily with a retention period of 1 week for multiple versions. - Due to its size, the Lustre directories only gets replicated (twice per week at present). Our intention is to try and replicate every night if possible.
