We provide 3.58PB storage for file system of OCTOPUS. The file system has two areas, "Home area" and "Work area". Home area: 100GB for each user and Work area: 5TB for each group are allocated as the initial capacity. If you use more than 5TB of work area, you need to apply for a separate paid option.
 

Home area

This area is a login directory. We allocate HDD 100 GB to all users as home area. home area is the following path:

/octfs/home/(user ID)

for instance, in the case of User ID "user001", Home area is /octfs/home/user001.
 

Work area

This area is able to expanse quota depending on your application. We allocate HDD 5 TB to all groups as work area at first. The maximum number of files and directories that can be created per group is 300,000,000. A warning message will be displayed if this limit is exceeded, so please take care. Please notice that the usage is the amount of Home area and Work area. Work area is the folowing path:

/octfs/work/(group name)/(user ID)

for instance, in the case of User ID "user001" in Group "G00001", Work area is /octfs/work/G00001/user001.
Please check your group name with "groups" command.
 

*Example of executing the groups command

    % groups
    ocean G12345
    (For general users, the group name is displayed after "ocean".)
     
    % groups
    hpci hp12345
    (For HPCI and JHPCN users, the group name is displayed after "hpci".)
     

    % groups
    hpci hp12345 jh67890 G34567
    (If you belong to multiple groups or projects, all of them are displayed.)
     

 

In the area under the group name, users who belong to the group can freely move files and create new directories. Please use it for sharing files within the group.
 

Command for checking disk resource usage

    Please use usage_view command. This command shows the information of node-hours consumed on OCTOPUS by the user and the user's group. Also, disk usage by the user and the user's group are displayed. The detail is following page.

How to Check for Resource Usage
 

Notes

    OCTOPUS is operated with the utmost care by D3 Center and NEC Corporation, the vendor of OCTOPUS, but data is not backed up. Therefore, there is a possibility of data lost due to system failure, unforeseen accidents, or natural disasters. D3 Center will not be responsible for any data lost, so please back up all necessary files by yourself.