Thanks for the input Bob! It feels good to have an explanation!
We are, compared to the NIH, very small and do not run a huge cluster. We have two separate quite capable Linux servers (I guess this would correspond to two nodes at your place). A relatively large Windows storage server is mounted on each of these and this is the location on the servers where people do their analysis (since that creates a lot of data).
Maybe we can just buy a TB sized SSD disk for each of these servers, give all the users read/write privileges and they can go there to run smaller jobs or "I/O-bound" jobs like 3dFWHMx. Then I can set a cron-job to wipe it at midnight every other day or something. This would probably work well for us. Or do you see a major flaw in this?
Thanks again - This was great!
