New HPC Data Storage BEEGFS2 Will Provide Additional 430 Terabyte Storage Space
BEEGFS2 data storage purchased in 2020 thanks to the financial support of MikroTik Ltd. supplements the existing HPC data storage capacity and offers Latvian scientists opportunities to process bigger amounts of data.
BEEGFS2 is built on the parallel file system BeeGFS and uses up-to-date SSD NVMe disks, which ensure significantly better performance of many input-output operations. In addition, BEEGFS2 offers a larger than regular disk space, which will ensure additional 430 TB space in total. In its turn, MikroTik network equipment provides 10 Gigabytes per second of upload/download speed in communications with the research institutes.
WHAT RTU HPC USERS SHOULD KNOW?
- User data remain in the existing data storage HOME directory
/home/, but in BEEGFS2, a new directory/home_beegfs/is created for each user, which can be used if necessary. In case you wish to use a new directory as your primary directory (connect to it automatically logging in to the HPC system), please contact the technical support of HPC system at hpc@rtu.lv.
- A new SCRATCH directory
/scratch_beegfsis created, which is shared among all nodes and is located physically in the dynamic disk pool. For detailed information about the use of fast and slow pools, please see here.
- A user’s storage space remains as it used to be previously – 2 TB (unless agreed otherwise with the HPC). If a bigger space is needed, please write to hpc@rtu.lv.
Data storage is offered only to RTU HPC academic partners / RTU HPC users.
