{"id":1855,"date":"2018-05-03T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/?post_type=kbe_knowledgebase&#038;p=1855"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:26:08","slug":"met-cluster-scratch-storage","status":"publish","type":"kbe_knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/met-cluster-scratch-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"met-cluster scratch storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>met-cluster scratch space can be used for processing of temporary data. It is suitable only for data which is a copy of data stored in another, secure location, or which can be easily recreated. Data stored in scratch space can be lost due to hardware failure and it can also be deleted without warning by IT staff.<\/p>\n<p>The storage volume is exported from one of the interactive compute nodes. Is is auto-mounted on all the &#8216;glusterfs&#8217; compute nodes under \/scratch\/bdan18_scratch. 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