File Systems

/home/$USER

Is available on all nodes and is the default working directory when you log in. It is a network file system (NFS) and is NOT backed up regularly. It has a quota of 10 GB per user.

/scratch

Is available on all nodes and is the default location for temporary files. It is not backed up.

Performance Tip: For fast file access during jobs, copy your files to /scratch/$USER before running your job and delete them afterwards. The /scratch directory is backed by fast NVMe storage, which can significantly improve I/O performance compared to network file systems.

# Copy files to scratch before job
cp -r /path/to/your/data /scratch/$USER/

# Run your job with files from /scratch/$USER

# Clean up after job completes
rm -rf /scratch/$USER/your-data