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• • Description : GPFS shared parallel filesystem, not replicated, and not backed up.
  • Purpose: To store software related code and scripts, default quota size is small and fixed.
  • Mount: /home/<user>
  • Access: All Lilac nodes, including compute storage and login nodes.
  • Default quota: 100GB
  • Snapshots: 7 days of snapshots. ( not backed up ). Can be accessed in /home/.snapshots/<user>
  • Replicated: no

Lilac compute storage : 

• • Description : GPFS shared parallel filesystem, not replicated, and not backed up.
  • Purpose: For jobs to read and write compute data from login and compute nodes, default quota size is larger with flexibility to request larger quota.
  • Mount: /data/<lab group>
  • Access: All Lilac nodes, including compute storage and login nodes.
  • Default quota: 5TB 1TB ( Increased/Decreased on request )
  • Snapshots: 7 days of snapshots. ( not backed up ). Can be accessed in /data/.snapshots/<date>/<lab group>
  • Replicated: no

Lilac warm storage : 

• • Description : GPFS shared parallel filesystem, not replicated but will be replicated in near future, and not backed up. Comparatively slower than lilac compute storage.
  • Purpose: To store long term data. Only accessible from login nodes and cannot be accessed from compute nodes.
  • Mount: /warm/<lab group>
  • Access: Only lilac and luna login nodes.
  • Default quota: 5TB 1TB ( Increased/Decreased on request )
  • Snapshots: 7 days of snapshots. ( not backed up ). Can be accessed in /warm/.snapshots/<date>/<lab group>
  • Replicated: no ( will be replicated in near future )

Lilac local scratch storage : 

• • Description : XFS filesystem, not replicated, and not backed up. Local and not a shared filesystem, slower than GPFS.
  • Purpose: To store local temporary data related to compute jobs. Since this is not a shared filesystem, the temporary data needs to be cleaned up and copied back to shared filesystem after job completion.
  • Mount: /scratch/
  • Access: Only lilac compute nodes.
  • Default quota: No quota and limited to free disk space in /scratch.
  • Snapshots: No snapshots.
  • Replicated: no

How to :

Check Quota for GPFS filesystem:

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• • Lilac home storage :

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    mmlsquota lilalilac:home --block-size auto

    
    

  • Lilac compute storage : 

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    mmlsquota lila:-j data_<lab group name> --block-size auto
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    df -h /data/<lab group name> df -ih /data/<lab group name> lilac

    
    

    
    

  • Lilac warm storage (oscar) :

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    mmlsquota oscar:-j warm_<lab group name> --block-size auto
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    df -h /warm/<lab group name> df -ih /warm/<lab group name> oscar

    
    

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2. Copy files from other clusters:

• • SABA/LUNA/LUXJuno: 
    To copy files from other clusters, first ssh -A into the other cluster to forward your keys.

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    ssh -A $USERNAME@$CLUSTER

    We recommend rsync -va to copy files and directories.

    Make note of the source directory/source files and destination directory/files on Lilac and copy them as below:

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    rsync -av --progress $SOURCEPATH lilac:$DESTPATH

  HAL:

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    Remember that the hal cluster is outside the MSKCC network, and does not have access to lilac. 

    First - Make note of the source directory/source files on HAL and destination directory/files on Lilac:
    

    To transfer data, ssh into lilac as below :

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    ssh -A $USERNAME@lilac.mskcc.org

    Then pull files from HAL:

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    rsync -av --progress hal:$SOURCEPATH $DESTPATH

    Make sure you calculate the size of data you will copy to lilac, and that you have enough space on lilac to avoid hitting your hard quota. lilac uses data replication to for safety, so a file containing 1G of data consumes 2G of quota on lilac.
    You can see the size of files and directories with du, which will show 2G for 1G of file data due to replication. To see file size without replication overhead use du --apparent-size instead:

    Tip
    Depending on the size and number of files to copy, you may run multiple rsync commands simultaneously to copy different directories. The HPC private network is faster than the MSKCC campus network, so using short names (lilac, saba, luna, selene, etc.) like lilac will often make transfers faster than using the fully qualified domain names such as lunaname liilac.mskcc.org. This does not apply to hal, though