Minnesota Supercomputer Institute

Blade (IBM BladeCenter Linux Cluster) Policies and Procedures

Information about the policies and procedures applicable to this machine. For policies and procedures common to all machines, see the main policy page.

Home Directories

Currently, 1.6 TB of file space has been allocated for user home directories. The default quota for home directories is 5 GB.

Queues and Throttling Policies

In addition to limits placed on individual queues (see the quick start guide), each user is limited to:

Up to 10 jobs per user will be considered for scheduling, but a maximum of five jobs per user can be running at any given time.

Scratch Spaces

Currently, there is a total of 6 TB of file space allocated for scratch files in the /scratch1 and /scratch2 filesystems. The default quota for scratch space is 50 GB. A scratch clean up process runs daily on the system and all files in the scratch directories that have not been modified for 14 days will be deleted.

Users may request exceptions to the scratch clean up and additions to their quotas by sending e-mail to user support.