Data Storage on HPC

Your VSC account comes with certain amount of data storage capacity on each VSC cluster. This storage is provided through (at least) three main directories accessible from our clusters. Please check the following sections to familiarise yourself with the characteristics of each storage system and how to manage your data in them.

• Storage locations
  • Home directory
  • Data directory
  • Scratch space
• Tier-2 Storage Infrastructure
• Managing storage usage
  • File system quota
  • Total space used on file systems with quota
  • Space used by individual directories
• Request more storage
  • Increase inode quota
  • Increase personal storage
  • Increase storage in virtual organizations
  • Increase tier-1 project quota