Hippu upgrades: More memory, local work disk

27.01.2010

Hippu.csc.fi has been upgraded. Both nodes (Hippu1, Hippu2) now have 512 GB memory installed. Hippu also now has local work disk available.

Hippu.csc.fi has been upgraded.

Both nodes (Hippu1, Hippu2) now have 512 GB memory installed.

Hippu also now has local work disk available. The new disk can be accessed with
system variable $FCWRKDIR. Local disc offers faster I/O than the NFS-mounted $WRKDIR.

Please note that $FCWRKDIR is node specific. Files on Hippu1 $FCWRKDIR
are not accessible on Hippu2 and vice versa.

$FCWRKDIR is not meant for long term storage of files. There are no backups made
and unused files will be deleted after one month.

User quotas for $FCWRKDIR are 50 GB soft limit, 150 GB hard limit. The soft limit may be temporarily
exceeded. The hard limit can not be exceeded.

More information on Hippu disk systems can be found in  Hippu User's Guide.