Users are NOT supposed to run jobs from this filesystem because of the low performance. This is a shared - parallel filesystem 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.
Data is backed up with GPFS snapshots and no cleaning policy is applied: it provides long term storage for large amount of datasets, code or scripts that need to be accessed from different platforms. It is also intended for large files: performance increases when using larger files, therefore you should consider archiving small files with the tar utility.
Quota
Access to /store can only be bought signing a contract with CSCS. Data and inode quotas are group based: the quota is enforced according to the signed contract, with maximum 50 K files per TB of disk space.
Expiration
All data will be deleted 3 months after the end of the contract!