In addition to FGHFS and NFS Scratch filesystems in the HPC environment ITS Research Services currently offers 2 types of HPC-connected storage. Dedicated , Dedicated and Shared. Details Details about purchase/use may be found here:
http://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/100965
Dedicated storage is visible within the HPC environment by going to /Dedicated/<sharename>.
Shared storage is visible within the HPC environment by going to /Shared/<sharename>.
Both Both types of storage have the option of external visibility either via NFS (Unix/Mac clients) or CIFS (Windows/Mac clients).
Access to the storage shares is done via group membership. Investors Investors may request access to their group, typically "Research-<group>" by contacting ITS-RS. Membership Membership to the group is not limited to compute queue members, as there may be instances where collaboration between groups with storage purchases is desired.