File system and Data Management

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The HPC cluster offers access to two important file systems. In additions the compute nodes of the HERO-II cluster have local storage devices for high I/O demands. The different file systems available are documented below. Please follow the guidelines given for best pratice.

Storage Hardware

A GPFS Storage Server (GSS) serves as a parallel file system for the HPC cluster. The total (net) capacity of this file system is about 900 TB and the read/write performance is up to 17/12 GB/s over FDR Infiniband. It is possible to mount the GPFS on your local machine using SMB/NFS (via the 10GE campus network). The GPFS should be used as the primary storage device for HPC, in particular for data that is read/written by the compute nodes. Currently, the GPFS offers no backup functionality (i.e. deleted data can not be recovered).

The central storage system of IT services is used to provide the NFS-mounted $HOME-directories. The central storage system offers very high availability, snapshots, backup and should be used permanent storage, in particular everything that cannot be recovered easily (program codes, initial conditions, final results, ...).

File Systems

The following file systems are available on the cluster (SH: make a table here with cols FS, PATH, DEV, COMMENT, QUOTA) 

$HOME
$DATA
$WORK
$TMPDIR
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