Reminder: Galileo scheduled maintenance and new scratch area

Dear Users,

 

this is to remind you that tomorrow Galileo will be out of production for a scheduled maintenance operation, and that login nodes and filesystems will not be available during the course of the operation.

 

At the reopening of the cluster, a new, larger, scratch filesystem will enter into production and will be accessible at the mount point, /gpfs/scratch. The current scratch areas will be instead accessible, in read-only fashion, at the mount point /gpfs/scratch_old/<primary_group>/<username>, with the <primary_group> typically being userexternal. The new variable $SCRATCH_OLD will be defined for each user to easily access the current scratch data.

 

The new user scratch areas will be accessible via the usual $CINECA_SCRATCH variable, and they will be initially empty. Users will need to copy the data needed for future jobs from $SCRATCH_OLD to $CINECA_SCRATCH, and to save elsewhere or transfer to local storage resources what is not needed but cannot be discarded. The scratch_old filesystem will remain available for one month (until 16/07/2020).

 

Best regards

HPC User Support @ CINECA