Scratch File Service
PLEASE NOTE: the old scratch storage platform is end of life and will be retired on the 27th of April. Please migrate all scripts and jobs to use temp or working.
Scratch is currently only accessible on the rhino nodes, via Motuz, or via a mount on your workstation. On the 27th we will be removing that access.
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/scratchon SciComp supported Linux systems\\center.fhcrc.org\fh\scratchon Windowssmb://center.fhcrc.org/fh/scratchon 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.