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This is a repository area for collaborative work among different projects and across platforms. You need to explicitly ask for this kind of resource: it does not come as part of a project (mailto: superc@cineca.it).
Files File retention is related to life of DRES itself. Files in DRES will be conserved up to 6 months after DRES completion, then they will be cancelled. Several types of DRES are available, at present:
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This area is conceived for hosting data files to be used by several projects, in particular if you need to use them among different platforms. For example, you would need to post-process data produced on Marconi, taking advantage from the visualization environment of Galileo; or you would require a place for your data from experiments to be processed by several related projects. This filesystem is mounted only on login nodes of nodes and on the nodes of the "serial" partitions of all HPC clusters in Cineca(e.g. bdw_all_serial on Marconi, gll_all_serial on Galileo) - please recur to batch jobs on the serial partitions for the rsync transfers of great amounts of data, or to gridftp clients.
WARNING: DRES of type ARCH have a limit in the number of inodes available: 2000 inodes for each TB of quota. This means that no more than 2000 files can be stored in 1 TB of disk space. It is then recommended that you compress your files for storage purposes, and that the dimension of each file stored should be in an average quota of 500MB. DRES of types FS and REPO do not have this limitation.
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