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As a result, when doing heaving processing of files you should first copy file into a local working directory. Then after processing the file, you can copy any results which need to be saved back into you home or lab folder. This can be done in several ways. First, if you are using a cluster, then each cluster node has a directory called /state/partition1. If you write a job script, or run an interactive job (see our the tutorial on our cluster help page ), then it's essential that you make a temporary folder in /state/partition1 copy over files that you need to process, and process them locally. Once done, you should copy files that you want to save back over to your home directory, or to your lab's directory, and then remove your temporary directory.
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The file server will be patched and rebooted every Wednesday (Note: Not Tuesday as it was before) from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. If you are using a cluster or UNIX system during this time you will not need to do anything specific since UNIX systems can tolerate the server rebooting. Windows, and Mac people will need to disconnect from the server. This is done by dragging the hard disk icon to the Trash, or ejecting the disk in the Finder if you are a Mac user. If you are a Windows user, you should right click the harddrive icon in My Computer and choose "Disconnect". If you do not wish to log out of the server, then please at least close Word and other applications that are actively using files on the server. Finally, SFTP users will also need to log out.