[Beowulf] Putting /home on Lusture of GPFS

[Prentice Bisbal]

Just for clarification in my original post:

On 12/23/2014 12:12 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
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> 1. Users often try to run programs from in /home, which leads to 
> errors, no matter how many times I tell them not to do that. This 
> would make the system more user-friendly. I could use quotas/policies 
> to encourage them to use 'steer' them to use other filesystems if needed.
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Putting /home on the parallel filesystem isn't so much because I think 
my users are idiots. It's because I like to remove as many 'barriers to 
adoption' as possible and help them to 'cross the chasm' and become 
cluster users. I often get help e-mails from new users with error 
messages about not being able to access the executable on the compute 
nodes. This e-mail is often sent a Friday evening, so they have to wait 
until Monday morning for me to get back to them.

I try to do everything I can to make using clusters as easy as possible 
for my users. Once they get the hang of the basics and can run simple 
jobs, then I can worry about teaching them the difference in the 
performance of different filesystems, etc.

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Prentice