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FINAL REMINDER to NIH Biowulf Users
Date: 30 August 2021 14:08:22From: steve
Effective Wednesday Sep 1, Biowulf jobs will no longer be able to read or write data to the /scratch directory. Jobs attempting to do so will receive an error. Original and reminder emails follow: > Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: REMINDER to NIH Biowulf Users > Date: August 16, 2021 at 10:29:45 AM EDT > > HPC/Biowulf Users, > > Just a reminder that the /scratch directory will no longer be available from compute nodes effective Sep 1. Original announcement follows: > > ------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT message for NIH HPC Biowulf Users > > Date: 02 August 2021 10:08:37 > Biowulf Users, > > Effective Wednesday September 1 2021, the /scratch filesystem will no longer be accessible from compute nodes. > > The cluster-wide, shared /scratch directory on Biowulf is a low-performance, temporary storage space for users. User jobs on compute nodes that read or write from /scratch (as opposed to the high-performance /data areas) run much slower, impacting both the jobs and the filesystem as a whole. To ensure that user jobs don't access /scratch, and for the stability of the filesystems, /scratch is being removed from the compute nodes. > > /scratch will continue to be accessible from Biowulf, Helix, HPCdrive and Globus. As before, /scratch can be used for temporary files that are expected to be automatically deleted in 10 days time. > > Any batch or swarm command files which reference the /scratch file system should be modified before Sep 1, to use either your /data directory or /lscratch as appropriate. Please see https://hpc.nih.gov/storage/index.html for an overview of storage on HPC systems. > > ######################################################################## > > Please contact staff@hpc.nih.gov with any questions about the NIH HPC Systems ######################################################################## Please contact staff@hpc.nih.gov with any questions about the NIH HPC Systems[Last 12 months of HPC announcements]