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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 of 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 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. As a consequence you have to move data from $DRES to $CINECA_SCRATCH or $WORK area in order them to be seen by the compute nodes.
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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