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Detailed information for cluster migration:
1) Reduce the amount of
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researchers’ temporary, test user data on Sol to the bare minimum during the break.
- After the break, ChemIT will be deleting the content within everyone's test home directories on Sol. (Those directories were originally copied there as a testing convenience during our test phase.)
- We do this deletion before the final copy to ensure a clean import of researchers' researchers’ current production home directories from Helios.
- Lulu advised researchers of this step before the Thanksgiving break, so hopefully no surprises.
- During the winter break, Sol's data will be backed up.
- As with Helios, Sol's data will be copied and versioned to a dedicated, internal hard drive.
- NEW: EZ-Backup will be enabled on Sol, providing off-site backup protection.
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- Confirm that Sol is "good". That is, there is no need to "roll back" to using Helios's head node and for us to start again.
- Hoffmann group members are encouraged to install their shared group software in the /home/hoffmann/bin/ directory. Including:
- Materials Studio software. (Who? If Prasad is not available to do this, let's let’s discuss your options- thank you.)
- vasp
- gulp
- etc.
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