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 All the cluster nodes are diskless machines, apart from a a single SSD used as a fast/low-latency temporary directory.
+In the following section a more detailed description of the mounted file-systems will be given for your convenience in order to better exploit the cluster capabilities.
-In the following section a more detailed description will be given for your convenience in order to better exploit the cluster capabilities.
 ===== Mounted Filesystems =====
-Each node mounts from the login node the following file-systems:
+Each node mounts the following file-systems:
 ^ Mount point  ^ Description |
-|/             | |
+|/             | Is mounted via NFS from the login node. |
-|/home         | |
+|/home         | Is mounted via NFS from the login node and is shared between the compute nodes. |
-|/scratch      | |
+|/scratch      | Is mounted via NFS from the login node and is shared between the compute nodes; users can write in this folder, but files older than 48h will be automatically deleted. |
-|/tmp          | |
+|/tmp          | Is local to the compute node, thus it can be accessed faster than the //home// or //scratch// folders, but when your job completes, files saved in this folder will be automatically deleted.|
-|/backup       | |