Scratch File Service

PLEASE NOTE: the old scratch storage platform is end of life and will be retired soon. Please migrate all scripts and jobs to use hpc/temp.

Old page left for reference but will be removed following retirement of Thorium/scratch.

The scratch file system is maintained by SciComp for temporary storage of research data during active analysis. This is a large, high-performance storage system. It is not designed to be as available or as robust as the home or fast file systems.

Data on this platform is not backed up. This storage is not appropriate for storage of the primary or only copy of any data.

Data in scratch is purged when unused: the age at which files are purged is set by the file’s path in scratch:

path	age to be purged
/fh/scratch/delete10/	10 days
/fh/scratch/delete30/	30 days
/fh/scratch/delete90/	90 days

Data on this platform is not backed up. This storage is not appropriate for storage of the primary or only copy of any data.

As with other SciComp supported file systems, the scratch file system is available to most workstations connected to the campus network:

• /fh/scratch on SciComp supported Linux systems
• \\center.fhcrc.org\fh\scratch on Windows
• smb://center.fhcrc.org/fh/scratch on Mac.

There are no charges to the investigator for data stored here.

Data on this platform is not backed up. This storage is not appropriate for storage of the primary or only copy of any data.