Posts by Peter Childs
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 tasksmuch 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 scrat...
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