File storage for computation

The high-performance computing (HPC) systems at PDC use Lustre, a parallel file system that satisfies the requirements for leadership class HPC simulations. Lustre is for fast parallel access to large amounts of data for HPC simulations. The default for the Lustre storage system at PDC is that only home directories are backed up. Further information about storing data files can be found in the data management section  of the PDC User Support Area.

The PDC Cloud system uses its own storage based on Ceph.