Marconi100: shutdown complete and additional information

Dear Users,

as announced, Marconi100 cluster has been shutdown for the final dismission after end of production. We remind you all that it is still possible to login to M100, access the storage areas, and exploit M100 datamover till the end of October 2023. After that date, it will not be possible to acces the cluster anymore.

We strongly recommend you to start organizing the transfer of your files and folders from M100 to Leonardo as long as the cluster will become available for all users. To speed up the transfer we suggest you to organize your data into a limited number of larger size files. To this end, you can create large compressed archives (such as .tgz, zip, gz or .xz) out of your data, so as to reduce the total number of files to be copied. Please remember that within a month we will set the M100 filesystem in read-only mode. Therefore proceed to create your compressed archive files as soon as possible.

Please refer to our HPC Users' guide for all information about tools and guidelines for data transfer: https://wiki.u-gov.it/confluence/display/SCAIUS/Data+Transfer

In particular, have a look at our hints and good practice to speed up the copy of your data: https://wiki.u-gov.it/confluence/display/SCAIUS/Data+Transfer#DataTransf...

Best Regards,

HPC User Support @ CINECA