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Storage on the Clusters

There are three main types of storage available and each is intended for a particular type of use. A summary is given in the following table:

 

Mount point or

access method

Size and limits Lifetime and Backup Cost

 

Home

 

/users 2.3 TB but 10 Gb 20'000 files quota

Permanent

Once a day

-

 

Scratch

 

/scratch/axiom

/scratch/wally

233 TB

346 TB

Will be purged

NO BACKUP

95 CHF/TB
Work

 

/work

1000 TB

3 days snapshots

NO BACKUP

77.08 CHF/TB

 

UNIL NAS

 

/nas from curnagl.dcsr.unil.ch

\\nasdcsr.unil.ch from desktop clients

 

3.4 PB

2 snapshots per day

Replication on second site

120.78 CHF/TB for 2 copies