Taiga User Documentation

Introduction

Taiga is NCSA’s global file system that is integrated with all non-HIPAA environments in the National Petascale Computation Facility. The system has a data capacity of 19PB, a maximum throughput of ~110GB/s, and is based on DDN’s EXAScaler platform, running Lustre 2.15.

The system is built with scalable storage units (SSUs) and provides a center-wide, single-namespace file system that is available to use across multiple compute platforms. Through Taiga, researchers can access data on multiple systems simultaneously, improving the ability to run science pipelines across batch, cloud, and container resources.

Taiga is well integrated with the Granite tape archive to allow users to readily stage out data to Granite allocations for long-term, cold storage.

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