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These directories are accessible from the login node and all compute nodes. The /gpfs directories are connected to a fast parallel file system, these should be used to perform computations. Please do not use temporary directories like /tmp on the local nodes. These will overfill quickly and in the worst case consequently crash the node with all its computations on it!
For the contents of /home and /gpfs/project regular snapshots are created, you can restore your data from these snapshots. You can check you current quotas for these directories by loading the module "hpc-tools" on the login node and typing usage_report.py:
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