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- parallel input/output for production jobs
- moderate number of files
- transient nature of data
- no backup, no disaster recovery
- available directories
WORK=/scratch/usr/${USER}, for user data- project directory
/scratch/projects/<projectID>, for project datato collect and to share project data (please remember: no backup of the Lustre file system), see also hints on disk quota TMPDIR=/scratch/tmp/${USER}, applications and compilers store data temporarily
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