Users are NOT allowed to run jobs from this file system because of the low performance. This is a shared - parallel file system based on the IBM GPFS software. It is accessible from the login nodes of all CSCS platforms using the native GPFS client through Infiniband or ethernet, however it is mounted read-only on the compute nodes of the Cray computing systems.
The $PROJECT environment variable points to the personal folder /project/<group_id>/<username>. Data is backed up with GPFS snapshots and no cleaning policy is applied: it provides intermediate storage space for datasets, shared code or configuration scripts that need to be accessed from different platforms. Read and write performance increase using larger files, therefore you should consider to archive small files with the tar utility.
Quota
Access to /project is granted to all users with a production or large development project upon request at the time of proposal submission: please note that applicants should justify the requested storage as well as they do for compute resources. Each group folder has a quota space allocated that allows maximum 50 K files per TB of disk space.
Expiration
All data will be deleted 3 months after the end of the project without further warning!