Equipment

SGI Altix 3700 (Altix)

Disk Space Usage on the Altix

Home Directory

The directory that you access when you login to altix is your home directory, which is /home/groupname/username or /iob_home/groupname/username if you are a member of the Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB). Note that groupname is the name of your group (e.g. abclab) and username is your personal username (which is normally your UGA MyID). The default disk space quota on each home directory is 1GB (or 100GB for members of the IOB). The home directory that you access when you login to altix is the same that you access when you login to other RCC resources, such as the IBM pcluster and the Linux cluster (rcluster).

If you need more disk space for your home directory, please refer to the RCC policy page.

Scratch Space

Users can submit their jobs from the scratch area, located at /scratch/username or at /iob_scratch/username for members of the IOB. There is currently no user quota for the scratch area. Files that are no longer needed for active jobs should be transferred elsewhere (to your home directory or to your local machine). An automatic purging policy for files in /scratch and /iob_scratch may be established in the future if this area fills up with old files.