ODU ITS provides several storage solutions for researcher data depending on the data footprint, durability requirements, and I/O performance needs.
Each HPC user is allotted a home directory, located at /home/$USER (where $USER stands for the HPC user ID).
By default, each user is limited to 1 TB maximum data size in his/her home directory. You may contact us with a request for a larger home directory if your research requires more storage.
The mass research storage resides on an Isilon storage system comprised of multiple storage nodes connected with an internal Infiniband backend. This system provides over 2 PB of total shared storage for researchers on an Ethernet network (up to 10 Gb/s network speed). This storage is backed up regularly, providing reliable storage for important research data that must be preserved long-term. User's data are accessible both from HPC and Windows workstations.
Please visit the Mass Research Storage to learn more.
Each HPC cluster (Wahab, Turing) is attached to a dedicated scratch storage system to provide a temporary but high-performant storage for computation and data analysis. Data in this storage are not backed up. This storage is only available on a single HPC system:
/scratch/$USER; the total shared capacity is 349 TB./scratch-lustre/$USER; the total shared capacity is 170 TB.Know where you data is! Data residing on Wahab's scratch storage is not accessible on Turing, and vice versa.
By default, each user is limited to 1 TB maximum data size per scratch storage. Please judiciously use the scratch space and delete data as soon as you no longer need them. The scratch is not very big and tend to get filled up all too often!
If you have any questions or encounter any issues accessing storage, please contact the Research Computing help desk at rcc@odu.edu.