SC Layout

The following page will describe the system layout with details on where files and directories are stored on the student cluster SC.

SC Login Nodes

When a user connects via SSH to sc.rc.usf.edu, they will end up on one of several login nodes. These are the redundant, load-balancing login nodes which will allow you to access your files, develop code, submit jobs, and review your data.

Storage

SC has three tiers of storage, listed below:

/home

/home is your primary storage location and the default location you are assigned when you log into the system.

• /home resides on a GPFS clustered file server environment
• Backed-up nightly

Home directories are laid out as follows:

/home/[a-z]/<netid>

where [a-z] is the first letter of the user’s NetID.

/shares

/shares contains folders for group collaboration. If you are a member of any groups or you create any groups, you will have a folder under /shares of the same name. /shares is

• /shares resides on a GPFS clustered file server environment
• Backed-up nightly

/apps

/apps contains most of the system’s third-party applications.

Clusters

SC provides access to several compute cluster environments. Please see the queue layout documentation for more information.