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* The home directories get backed up daily with a retention period of 2 weeks for multiple versions.
 
* The home directories get backed up daily with a retention period of 2 weeks for multiple versions.
  
* Due to its size, the Lustre directories only get replicated on our replication storage (twice per week at present). Our intention is to try and replicate every night if possible.
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* Due to its size, the Lustre directories only get replicated to our replication storage (twice per week at present). Our intention is to try and replicate every night if possible.

Revision as of 02:26, 15 August 2018

Please familiarise yourself thoroughly with the following:

  • All users should use the PBS Torque queue manager 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 (See Storage Quotas and Charges).
  • 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 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 get backed up daily with a retention period of 2 weeks for multiple versions.
  • Due to its size, the Lustre directories only get replicated to our replication storage (twice per week at present). Our intention is to try and replicate every night if possible.