Accessing storage

Each user has a home directory on Apollo, which is used to store their files. Home directories are available from all of Apollo's compute nodes in order to minimise moving data around when running programs.

Home directories on Apollo are there to support running jobs and are not intended to be used as a long-term storage area. Users are expected to copy valuable results off Apollo.

Please note that user home directories on Apollo are NOT backed up. 

On Windows systems files can be transferred graphically between your local computer and the remote cluster by using WinSCP program that is available on university desktops.

On Linux or Mac OSX systems the scp command can be used to copy files to and from your home directory, e.g. to copy a local file to your Apollo home directory:

scp local_file.txt username@apollo.lboro.ac.uk: