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General Guidelines to reduce File I/O load on TACC:

TACC staff now recommends that you run your jobs out of the $SCRATCH file system instead of the global $WORK file system.  Copy input files to $SCRATCH, run analyses, output should be written to $SCRATCH. Copy results to $WORK when done.

General Guidelines to when transferring files to/from TACC:

1. Don't do too many  (>3) simultaneous file transfers.
2. If you need to transfer recursive files (directories within directories, lots of small files), create a TAR archive  before transferring.

Now let's go on to look at how jobs are run on stampede2.