Data

On this cluster there is a /data directory that is used to store files for various projects. A subdirectory will be created for your lab/project with permissions set to only allow the users you specify to have access. The /data directory is not meant for long term storage. Within Globus the /data directory is under the collection named Duke RCC Scratch Storage.

Lab Shared Directory

Each lab is allocated a /data/<GroupName>directory with minimally a 10 TB quota for sharing within a lab. Often the GroupName is the last name of your PI followed by the word “lab”.

All lab members have read-write-execute (rwx) permissions at the root of the lab’s shared scratch space. Any file or directory that a lab member creates at this location will have that lab member as user-owner, with rwx permissions. The lab group will be the group owner, with default read and execute (r-x) permissions. If other group members aside from the individual who created a file or directory need write access to it, the creator must grant that permission with chmod . ‘chmod g+w <file>’ grants group write permission to a file. ‘chmod -R g+w <directory>’ grants group write recursively throughout the specified directory to all files and subdirectories within it.

IRB Protocol Directory

The IRB protocol accounts are meant to secure the data controlled by an IRB and enable billing specific for that work. A /data/irb/<deptname>/pro<irbnum>directory is created to store the data with minimally a 10 TB quota.  

User Home Directory

Each user is allocated a 50 GB quota for a user’s home directory.

See Transferring Data for ways to transfer data in and out of the cluster.