The below table summarises where to install software on Pawsey supercomputers.
| Filesystem | When to install software | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| /home | Never | Potentially significant performance degradation for all users, system instability, small user quota, security risk created when permitting others to access your /home directory |
| /group | Always | High performance, negligible impact on other users, by default file permissions are open to rest of the research group and nobody else |
| /scratch | Never | It will be purged in 30 days if unused. |
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