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System News & Updates
- LustreC filesystem unavailable May 12 - May 13, 2013 - Resolved
May 13, 2013
- Unscheduled Fortress Outage - April 29, 2013
April 29, 2013
- Network outage affecting Peregrine1 cluster - 4/24/2013
April 16, 2013
- Scheduling paused on Carter cluster - 4/16/13
April 16, 2013
- Fortress tape library upgrade, March 28-29, 2013 (Updated 4:25pm 3/29)
March 28, 2013
Storage Resources
ITaP maintains several different storage resources to accompany computational systems. Here is a brief introduction to research storage resources. More information and detailed documentation are available for each resource listed below.
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Fortress Archive (HPSS)
The Fortress Archive (HPSS) system is a large, long-term, multi-tiered file caching and storage system utilizing both online disk and robotic tape drives. ITaP upgraded Fortress Archive (HPSS) from DXUL to HPSS in October of 2011.
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Network Storage
Network Storage to all ITaP research resources comes from a combination of EMC Isilon and Data Direct Networks hardware. These provide multiple tiers of storage for three distinct classes of service:
Persistent Tier:
- Individual's home directories,
- Software application space,
- Shared group space
Scratch Tier:
- NFS scratch (Steele and Radon)
- Lustre parallel scratch (Peregrine 1, Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter)
Archive Tier:
- Fortress archive (HPSS)