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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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