With effect from 1 May 2021, there is a new 3 PB Lustre storage system available. It is mounted on the system as /mnt/lustre3p, and user directories for all current users have already been created. To make life easy for yourself, create a symbolic link in your home directory:

[jblogs@login2:~]$ USERNAME=`whoami`
ln -s /mnt/lustre3p/users/$USERNAME lustre3p

From your home directory, cd lustre3p will take you straight to your new lustre directory.

As of 1 May 2021, it is already possible to do new runs directly using the new storage. Running from the original Lustre will no longer be available after 31 May 2021. The original Lustre storage will be permanently retired shortly afterwards, as it has reached its lifetime limit.

Please refer to the File Systems guide for policy information, but the following points are most relevant:

1. There is a strict 90-day lifetime applied to files on Lustre. Any file that has not been accessed for read or write for 90 days or more will be automatically deleted without warning.
2. Data intended for future re-use or archiving must be stored elsewhere.