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Rivanna Storage
There are a variety of options for storing large-scale research data at UVa. Public and Internal Use data storage systems can be accessed from the Rivanna and Afton high performance computing systems.
Storage Directories Name Quota Price Data Protection Accessible from Best Practices /home 200GB Free 1-week snapshots Rivanna/Afton /home is best used as a working directory when using Rivanna/Afton interactively. Slurm jobs run against /home will be slower than those run against /scratch. The /home directory is a personal storage space that is not shareable with other users. /scratch 10TB Free No backups, Data removed 90 days after last file access time Rivanna/Afton /scratch is a high performance parallel filesystem that is suitable for large scale computational work.
Research Data Storage
There are a variety of options for storing research data at UVA. Public and internal use data storage systems can be accessed from the Rivanna and Afton high performance computing systems. Sensitive and highly sensitive data can be stored and accessed within the Ivy secure computing environment. University Information Security provides an overview of the data sensitivity classifications.
All UVA faculty are eligible to serve as PI and request access to RC services (e.g. storage & HPC allocations, virtual machines, microservices) for their research group. Postdocs and staff are encouraged to use an allocation provided by a faculty sponsor, although they may request their own allocation pending departmental or RC approval.
