Storage

https://hpc.ncsu.edu/Documents/Storage.php

Home directory

Each user has 1GB of space in their home directory home/user_name

Scratch space

Each project has 10 TB of quota in /share/group_name.

Scratch space is not backed up.

OIT Research storage

Each faculty member and researcher has 2TB of research storage through OIT.

Any active project in RADAR gets 2TB as well.

OIT research storage can be accessed from HPC through the Research Storage Manager.

See https://oitrsvprd.oit.ncsu.edu/docs/storage/access/hpc/, specifically https://oitrsvprd.oit.ncsu.edu/docs/storage/access/hpc/#user-access-on-hpc

The PI who "owns" a project will have to grant storage access to other users, see https://oitrsvprd.oit.ncsu.edu/docs/storage/access/hpc/#user-access-on-hpc

How to mount research storage on your PC:

https://research.oit.ncsu.edu/docs/storage/access/mount/

Mounting research storage creates a virtual drive on your PC and assigns it a letter, for example assigning \\rs.oit.ncsu.edu\rs1\researchers\u\username to letter W:\ (or any unclaimed letter you want). Then you can access files as you normally would, e.g., in Windows Explorer, although there can be a delay as files are transferred for local access. This also means you can open code locally in your text editor, e.g., Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code. Again, just don't expect opening, saving, etc., to be instantaneous.

To access the virtual drive, you need to be connected through the NCSU VPN or through a wired on-campus connection. (That is, if you are on campus and using a wifi connection, e.g., eduroam, you still will need to connect to the NCSU VPN.)

Then to get to your research storage space in your terminal (e.g., MobaXterm or Terminal) you cd /rs1/researchers/u/username. (Note that the u in researchers/u/ will be replaced by the first letter of your username, e.g., researchers/r/rpguiter.)

See also File transfer to OIT Research Storage on this wiki.