Posts by Peter Childs
Migrating to a new research storage system
As the current 2 PetaByte Research Data Storage on Apocrita reaches end of life this summer, we have procured a new storage system, providing 5PB of capacity. This means faster, bigger and cheaper storage for you, the researcher! Read on to discover the benefits…but first, an important notice.
in news, Jun 27, 2022
File Permissions
An understanding of file permissions is important to the success of computational jobs, and the security of your files.
in tutorial, Jan 10, 2022
A guide to using Apocrita's scratch storage
The Apocrita scratch storage is a high performance storage system designed for short-term file storage, such as working data. We recently replaced the hardware that provides this service, and expanded the capacity from 250TB to around 450TB. This article will look at the recent changes, and suggest some best practices when using the scratch system.
in news, Jun 24, 2021
Storage Upgrade June 2019
Apocrita Research Data Storage: Notice of “at risk” period
in news, Jun 12, 2019
New high performance storage for scratch data
We are pleased to announce a new scratch storage array that is based on fast NvME based hardware. This will hopefully make I/O related tasks much faster
in news, Mar 20, 2019
Performance testing with NVMe storage and Spectrum Scale 5
We have recently procured 120TB of NVMe based SSD storage from E8 Storage for the Apocrita HPC Cluster. The plan is to deploy this to replace our oldest and slowest provision of scratch storage.
in article, Dec 19, 2018
Home and Group Directories
During the summer, home directories were migrated to the new storage platform. This means that quotas have grown slightly as the underlying block size has increased.
in news, Sep 15, 2018