Storage Specifications

Quest has an IBM GPFS parallel file system with ESS storage totaling approximately 12 petabytes.

Quest has three storage locations available to users:

• Home: /home/<netid>

  • 80 GB quota per user

  • Secured to your ID only

  • Files are backed up

  • Automatically created for any user with access to an active Quest resource

• Projects: /projects/<account-name>

  • 1 or 2 TB quota per project; see Quest Resources for details

  • Files are not backed up

  • See Quest Resources for options to request or purchase access to /projects storage

  • Access is managed for individual users through ColdFront Projects

• Scratch: /scratch/<netid>

  • 5 TB (flash SSD)

  • Secured to your ID, but access can be shared with others if needed

  • Useful for storing large intermediate files or files where optimal speed and performance are needed

  • Files are deleted automatically after a period of time

  • Automatically created for any user with access to an active Quest compute resource

Additional information can be found at Quest File System in the Quest User Guide.