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Normally (i.e. locations like ”/storage/gpfs_EXPERIMENT_NAME/.../”) it is a filesystem to store experiments’ data and it is optimized for big sized files (∼GB). It is recommended not be used as home directories or for SW compilation. We recommend a minimum file size of several MB (use archival tools, i.e. tar, to pack many small files if needed). If you have different needs please contact the user support since different storage resources can be provided. For example, the file system /storage/gpfs_small_files/.../ was created for storing a large number of small files.
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