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Environment Variable

Purpose

Quota

On Login Nodes

On Compute Nodes

Backup

Snapshots

HOME

Home directory. Permanent small data.

Per user account.

20 GBGiB

inspect with: pc2status or df -h $HOME

read-write

read-write

yes

yes

PC2DATA

Permanent project data (e.g. program binaries, final results).

Per project, full path $PC2DATA/<project-acronym>

Requested at project application

inspect with: pc2status or df -h $PC2DATA/<project_acronym>

read-write

read-only

yes

yes

PC2PFS

Parallel file system for computations. Temporary working data (but does not get erased periodically).

Per project, full path $PC2PFS/<project-acronym>.

Requested at project application

inspect with: pc2status or lfs quota -hg <project_acronym> $PC2PFS

read-write

read-write

no

no

PC2PFSN1

PFS of Noctua 1 available at Noctua 2

same as PC2PFS

read-write

read-only

no

no

PC2PFSN2

PFS of Noctua 2 available at Noctua 1

same as PC2PFS

read-write

read-only

no

no

PC2DEPOT

Long-term backup of research data for members of Paderborn University. This filesystem is hosted and maintained by [ZIM].

needs to be requested

read-write

not available

yes

no

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Most of the filesystems above have quotas enabled. Per default, every user gets 20GB 20GiB in his home directory. The quota on the group dirs and scratch filesystems varies according to your project application. You can display your quota usage on $HOME and $PC2DATA the following way:

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