User Tools

Site Tools


aurora_cluster:storage

This is an old revision of the document!


Storage on Aurora

Storage in the Aurora cluster is organized as detailed by Lunarc. Read the following: http://lunarc-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_reference/#file-systems

The home folders are maintained and backed up by Lunarc, and they are in a special storage machine dedicated to users.

Basic rules

Please follow these rules to keep the storage tidy.

  1. Whenever you need to move data to one of the shared folders below,
    create a folder with your username and put the data in there.
    In this way you keep your data away from unwanted people and you can set all the permissions you want on it.
    1. Example:
      # create folder
      [pflorido@aurora1 hep]$ mkdir /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido
      # copy data
      [pflorido@aurora1 hep]$ cp mydata  /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido/mydata
      # list file permissions
      [pflorido@aurora1 ~]$ ls -ltrah /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido/mydata
      -rw-r--r--. 1 pflorido hep 0 12 apr 12.32 /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido/mydata
      # change to read/write only user and group (no rights to everyone)
      [pflorido@aurora1 ~]$ chmod 660 /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido/mydata
      # check applied permissions
      [pflorido@aurora1 ~]$ ls -ltrah /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido/mydata
      -rw-rw----. 1 pflorido hep 0 12 apr 12.32 /projects/hep/nobackup/shared/pp/pflorido/mydata
    • Data found outside a folder named after a user it is a good candidate to be deleted. Of course there can be exceptions when needed.
  2. Remove data that you don't use, for example from the scratch folders. Be kind to your colleagues! storage has a cost.

Nuclear, Particle and Theorerical Physics

Dedicated Shared storage server on Aurora

In particular, the HEP nodes dedicated storage usable by members of all divisions is accessible on hep nodes au[193-216] at this path:

/projects/hep/nobackup/

The organization of data in the above folder is as follows, and users are encouraged to enforce it:

Folder name Folder purpose Description Subfolders
software Application software This folder hosts software that is not accessible via cvmfs (see later). This usually includes user/project specific libraries and frameworks. /np for Nuclear Physics users
/pp for Particle Physics users
/tp for Theoretical Physics users
shared Data that will stay for long term This folder should be used for long-term stored data. For example, long-term data sets or data needed for the whole duration of a phd project or shared among people belonging to the same research group. /np for Nuclear Physics users
/pp for Particle Physics users
/tp for Theoretical Physics users
scratch Data that will stay for short term This folder should be used for short-term stored data. For example, data needed for a week long calculation or temporary calculation. This folder should be considered unreliable as its contents will be purged from time to time. The cleanup interval is yet to be decided /np for Nuclear Physics users
/pp for Particle Physics users
/tp for Theoretical Physics users
users Copy of Iridium User homes This folder contains a copy of each user's private home folder on Iridium. DO NOT use this on Aurora. This folder will be used as a backup until we plan some other Iridium backup. /<username> each user her own folder
/npguests/<username> for Nuclear Physics guests
/ppguests/<username> for Particle Physics guests

Other special folders:

/cvmfs Special folder containing CERN maintained software user cannot write This special folder is dedicated to software provided by CERN. This folder is read-only. Usually the content of this folder are managed via specific scripts that a user can run. If you need to add some software that you cannot find, contact the administrators. /geant4.cern.ch for Nuclear Physics users
/atlas.cern.ch for Particle Physics users

Dedicated storage for Particle Physics

Description yet to come.

Storage on Iridium

The Iridium storage is still accessible at

/projects/hep/iridium/

Please refer to the documentation at basic_information for it.

Additional dedicated storage

There are two storage servers installed for the exclusive use of particle physics. The recommendation is to use these instead of /project/hep/nobackup so to give space to the other users of it.

:!: /project/hep/fs2 is a symbolic link to /project/hep/nobackup

Storage path Intended usage Size
/project/hep/fs3/share data that is meant to stay for long time 35TB
/project/hep/fs4/scratch temporary data 35TB

Mathematical Physics

At the moment, only the user folders are available. We are negotiating a 10TB common storage with Lunarc. More information is soon to come.

aurora_cluster/storage.1491993328.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/04/12 10:35 by florido

Accessibility Statement