There is scratch disk space available for NYBLue users.

Unlike your home directory, it is not backed up, and we reserve the right to purge your scratch space files.

If you use it, please keep your total disk consumption in it reasonably sized, since you are sharing it with other users, and since when it reaches capacity, unless users release some space, it may be necessary for us to purge files in it.

To create scratch disk space for your NYBlue username, create a subdirectory for your username under:

/gpfs/scratch1
OR
/gpfs/scratch2
OR
/gpfs/scratch3

You can use the df command to decide upon which of those to use.

Example:

johndoe@fen:/gpfs> df -k

/dev/scratch1 93769728000 91527290880 2242437120 98% /gpfs/scratch1
/dev/scratch2 179725312000 157390832640 22334479360 88% /gpfs/scratch2
/dev/scratch3 78140436480 68668420096 9472016384 68% /gpfs/scratch3

(scratch3 is the least full, only 68%)

cd /gpfs/scratch3
mkdir johndoe
( /gpfs/scratch3/johndoe will be your scratch disk space directory )


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