Project Storage (/project)
Project storage on Palmetto uses the Indigo Data Lake. Faculty members can request storage allocations using the PDF forms provided on storage purchasing guide.
More details about how to use Indigo can be found on the Indigo Data Lake documentation. Information about using Indigo on Palmetto is covered by the Indigo HPC Access section.
Requesting
Faculty interested in requesting project storage should consult the storage purchasing guide.
Check Quota
To check how much of your storage quota you are using on your Indigo project
space from the Palmetto cluster, you can use the checkproject command.
The command takes one argument that indicates which space you want to check. Place dashes between the owner's username and the name of the space.
The checkproject command is only available on the login nodes.
For example, say I have project space at /project/tiger/football, I could run
the command:
$ checkproject tiger-football
Date: Mon Jan 1 12:30:44 EDT 2024
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Project Space : /project/tiger/football
Total Capacity : 3096 GB
Used : 1104 GB
Available : 1992 GB
You can use the Total Capacity, Used, and Available values displayed in the output to understand your quota and usage.
There are other methods for checking your quota! Visit the quota page on the Indigo Data Lake documentation to learn more.
Alternative Access Methods
Project storage make use of our Indigo Data Lake. Thus, owners can request certain alternative access methods be enabled for their project space (for example SMB mounts). For details, see the Indigo Data Lake access methods documentation.