Group storage directories are now protected by additional snapshots. You might be wondering what that is, and how does it help? We answer questions about data protection often, but this particular change is exciting and gives us an opportunity to discuss our file system, data protection, and specifically snapshots.
We hope you enjoy the new cluster software list. This list will be regularly updated when new software is installed on the cluster. It uses a semi-automated process to read data from our modulefiles, which we then transform to a usable yaml format. We hope to add new lists for other package systems such as R. Please let us know if that is of interest.
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RCC maintenance will last from 9PM-12AM on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Cluster jobs will be blocked during maintenance. Login nodes will be rebooted. Open OnDemand will be rebooted. Access to storage may be disrupted.
Every RCC user has access to scratch space (i.e., /scratch) on the cluster, but many do not use it properly, or might not understand
its purpose. Here we'll talk about scratch space, why it exists, and how to use it properly.