Accessing scratch space - Green-Biome-Institute/Xsede GitHub Wiki

Your Bridges storage is likely at /pylon5/ under a specific directory. Thanks to Xsede people, we can access a bunch of information on the project (in this case GBI) by using the following comment:

$ projects

This will tell you the charge id which is basically how you get to your scratch directory. You have several directories (aka folders) on bridges which allows you to store data, scripts etc. The so-called scratch space usually has unlimited storage space where you can store your data during analyses. You read your files and write your files on this allocation. But remember SCRATCH IS NOT BACKED-UP! So backup your files on the local GBI servers and on cloud like googledrive where you have unlimited storage. You want to have 2 copies of our data ideally 1 on cloud and 1 on an easily accessible server.

Ok now you know the project charge id, let's go into that directory:

$ cd /pylon5/insert_charge_id_here/your_userName

Here is where you will put your data and do your analyses at. Now let's look at how you transfer files between servers/local computers to and from Xsede.