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Home Directory (/home) Scratch Space (/scratch) Filesystem (/lts) Object Store (LTOS) Reference (/ref)
Purpose - environment customizations and scripts - development and storage of small personal project TEMPORARY STORAGE FOR: raw/initial data needed for processing by running/pending jobs intermediate data generated by running jobs final processed data prior to moving data to safer location (LTS) after jobs complete Long Term Storage For: raw/initial data such as sequencer data finished (fully processed) data documentation describing how to reproduce fully processed data from initial data Long Term Storage For: raw/initial data such as sequencer data finished (fully processed) data documentation describing how to reproduce fully processed data from initial data Long Term Storage For: Software tools needed by jobs for the processing of data reference data such as reference genomes and NCBI databases
Size 20G 2TB per account - - 1TB per lab
Increase Cost NA $11.61/TB/Month $11.61/TB/Month $11.61/TB/Month
Size Limit 20G Temporary increase available as resources allow. Please provide # TBs needed and duration of need - - -
Access from All HTCF Nodes All HTCF Nodes Login Node Only All HTCF Nodes All HTCF Nodes
Access Type Standard Filesystem Standard Filesystem Standard Filesystem
/lts/<lab>
HTTP interface compatible with (but not using) Amazon S3 API Standard Filesystem
/ref/<lab>/data
/ref/<lab>/software
Est. Access Speed Slow 10+ GB/s (aggregate) 200 MB/s 1+ GB/s (aggregate) 100 MB/s (aggregate)
Backup Policy Onsite daily/weekly/monthly snapshots as resources allow Offsite backup daily NO BACKUPS Onsite daily/weekly/monthly snapshots as resources allow. Offsite backup daily. mirrored offsite. User customizable: versioning of objects, schedule removal of old objects NO BACKUPS
Cleaning Policy - See the scratch data cleaning policy - - -