Talapas File Structure

Owned by Lucas Crownover
Last updated: Aug 21, 2024
2 min read

Talapas is a cluster of Linux systems, so file structure on Talapas follows the typical structure you’d find on a standard Linux system. As a user, there are several locations in which to store your data on Talapas:

Home

Your home directory at /home/<username> has a quota of 250GB and can be used to store whatever work-related data you might need. This directory is only accessible by you.

Projects

For each project you’re a part of, you have a /home/<project> symlink in your home directory to /projects/<project>. This project directory is owned by the PI and all members of the PIRG have read/write access to files and directories created here to enable collaboration. By default, the project has a 2TB quota and can be increased by purchasing additional storage.

 

For example, here is my home directory. Notice the symlink from racs to /projects/racs.

[lcrown@login1 ~]$ ls -l total 11 drwxr-xr-x. 2 lcrown uoregon 4096 Dec 6 2023 Desktop drwxr-xr-x. 3 lcrown uoregon 4096 Jan 2 2024 Documents drwxr-xr-x. 2 lcrown uoregon 4096 Dec 6 2023 Downloads drwxr-xr-x. 5 lcrown uoregon 4096 Apr 25 09:14 globus drwxr-x---. 3 lcrown uoregon 4096 May 22 2023 matrix_mul drwxrwxr-x. 2 lcrown uoregon 4096 Dec 5 2023 mpitest drwxr-xr-x. 3 lcrown uoregon 4096 Jul 29 2020 ondemand lrwxrwxrwx. 1 lcrown uoregon 14 Aug 21 15:56 racs -> /projects/racs -rw-r--r--. 1 lcrown uoregon 10 Mar 5 14:16 success.txt drwxr-xr-x. 2 lcrown uoregon 4096 May 6 12:56 temp -rw-r--r--. 1 lcrown uoregon 0 Apr 22 14:52 testfile -rw-r--r--. 1 lcrown uoregon 104 Feb 7 2024 test.go -rw-r--r--. 1 lcrown uoregon 114 Aug 10 2023 test.yml -rw-r--r--. 1 lcrown uoregon 1437 Nov 9 2023 Untitled.ipynb -rw-r-----. 1 lcrown root 563 Sep 25 2023 wavedecompnet.yml

I can navigate to my racs project via the symlink:

[adm-lcrown@login1 ~]$ cd racs [adm-lcrown@login1 racs]$

Or via the direct path:

[adm-lcrown@login1 ~]$ cd /projects/racs [adm-lcrown@login1 racs]$

This directory is where I can store my files for collaboration with other users on the project.