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Information about PDC's storage solutions; AFS, Lustre, GPFS, HSM, SweStore and other useful storage related topics.
Disk space
Available disk space for PDC's users is not only AFS.
Usage Guidelines for Scratch Filesystems
Process-specific temporary data, such as intermediate results, is preferably stored on local disk. Filesystems dedicated to this purpose are usually called "scratch" file systems.
Introduction
At PDC we are using AFS, which is a global, distributed file system. Given proper authentication, any file in your home directory at PDC, is accessible from any computer around the world running an AFS client!
How to Use AFS in the PDC Environment
Most probable, your PDC home directory is located in the Andrew file system, AFS. This text describes some important characteristics of AFS, and it's differences from an ordinary Unix file system, UFS.
Storage Services
Gives an overview of PDC Mass Storage Services, a collection of facilities for managing large amounts of data in the PDC environment
Guidelines /cfs/klemming
Guidelines on the usage of klemming - PDCs high-performance file-system, preliminary as of 2011-05-31.
SweStore
The Swedish Storage Initiative. SNIC is creating a storage infrastructure to complement the computational resources.
Historical Storage
Storage at PDC in the grand old days!
Tape Storage
Description of PDC's magnetic tape data storage