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SGI Altix 3700 High Performance Computer

Disk Space Usage on the Altix

Home directory:

The directory that you access when you login to Altix is your home directory /home/groupname/username, which has a default quota of 1GB. This is the same home directory that you access when you login to other RCC resources, such as the IBM pcluster and the Linux cluster (rcluster).  To see what your disk quota is (in KB) and how much disk space you currently have allocated use the command:

quota   -v

If you need more disk space for your home directory, please refer to the RCC policy page.

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Scratch space:

Users can submit their jobs from the scratch area, located at /scratch/username. There is currently no user quota for the scratch area. Files that are no longer needed for active jobs should be transferred elsewhere (to your home directory or to your local machine). An automatic purging policy for files in /scratch may be established in the future if this area fills up with old files.