<p>15/06/2020</p>
<p>Dear Users,<br />
<br />
this is to remind you that tomorrow Galileo will be out of production for a<br />
scheduled maintenance operation, and that login nodes and filesystems will<br />
not be available during the course of the operation.<br />
<br />
At the reopening of the cluster, a new, larger, scratch filesystem will enter<br />
into production and will be accessible at the mount point, /gpfs/scratch. The<br />
current scratch areas will be instead accessible, in read-only fashion, at<br />
the mount point /gpfs/scratch_old//, with the typically being userexternal.<br />
The new variable $SCRATCH_OLD will be defined for each user to easily access<br />
the current scratch data.<br />
<br />
The new user scratch areas will be accessible via the usual $CINECA_SCRATCH<br />
variable, and they will be initially empty. Users will need to copy the data<br />
needed for future jobs from $SCRATCH_OLD to $CINECA_SCRATCH, and to save<br />
elsewhere or transfer to local storage resources what is not needed but<br />
cannot be discarded. The scratch_old filesystem will remain available for one<br />
month (until 16/07/2020).<br />
<br />
Best regards<br />
HPC User Support @ CINECA</p>