Borgstore
This page presents information and purchasing process for Borgstore, the on-campus data-storage center available for researchers.
Borgstore (BeeGFS)
Borgstore is UC Merced's on campus data-storage center and is available for research PI to purchase. Borgstore is used for store active,research-related data and has the use capacity of 480 terrabytes.
Borgstore is also made up of a metadata server with a 1U dual Xeon Skylake SP, 8x 2.5" Hotswap, 24 DIMM Sockets, IPMI, dual 10GbE-T base system and 8x 3.2TB Endurance Data Center PCIe NVMe 2.5.Solid State Drive metadata storage
Borgstore is now accessible on all nodes (MERCED and Pinnacles) with Infiniband (IB), all of the partitions contain a mixture of nodes of InfiniBand and non-InfiniBand nodes. If users want to submit jobs while at the Borgstore folder, the slurm option of #SBATCH --constraint=ib should be added to the job script. Example job script can be found here. More information pertaining to Borgstore can be found here
Borgstore does not do data backups. Users are responsible for ensuring they have backups of thier data and work.
Request Borgstore
Borgstore is a purchasable service that can be requested here. Cost for active data storage is shown below. More information can be found here.
| Startup funds | Non-startup funds |
|---|---|
| $0.05/GB/year | $0.06/GB/year |
Accessing Data from Borgstore for a job
To access data that is located in Borgstore the user must be in the Borgstore folder/directory and must the submit job to the scheduler from this location. If users want to submit jobs while at the Borgstore folder, the slurm option of #SBATCH --constraint=ib should be added to the job script.
To run an interactive job, the job must also be ran from the borgstore directory.
Common questions about Borgstore
How to check my current occupied space on Borgstore?
Users can not check a detailed-breakdown of a group's users and their respective useage of the Borgstore storage. However, users can check thier Groups storage usage/total using the command beegfs-ctl --getquota --gid. And users can check their ID number and Group ID via the command id
When should I use Borgstore?
Borgstore is a great for users who must readily access exceedingly large quantities of data that can not fit onto our given data quotes in the shared workspace of Home,Data and Scratch. Borgstore is also useful when the output(s) are huge and can quickly take up all the space in the Data folder
I am having trouble accessing the Borgstore and the direcotries in the Command-Line Interface is blanking red?
If the path displayed is flashing red and user is having issues directly accessing the Borgstore then the soft-links leading to the Borgstore are broken or outdated. It is best to open a ticket to get further assitance. Click here to open a ticket.