The Illinois Campus Cluster Program is now utilizing NCSA’s center-wide filesystem, Taiga, for project directories. The change in file systems reduces costs for customers who rent storage from $4.76/TB/month to $2.76/TB/month. Future disk purchases will be through Taiga’s 14TB disk option.

Home Directories (/u) are now hosted on NCSA’s global home filesystem, Harbor. User quota will increase to 100GB storage and up to 500,000 inodes, with an increase to 750,000 inodes by late Q1 2025.

You can request storage space through Taiga by following these instructions. You can learn more about the Taiga system in the Taiga documentation.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Service

This option is beneficial for projects with offsite disaster recovery storage needs for their primary research storage investment.

Cost: $3.00 per terabyte per month (chargeable to grants and exempt from F&A)

Customers agree to purchase/rent storage resources in units of 1 TB for a period of time in increments of one month. Customers requiring 30TB or more will be required to agree to at least 1 year of rent with a period beyond one year in increments of one month. Storage requirements at 30 TB and above may require the purchase and deployment of additional hardware and those customers are encouraged to discuss their needs with ICCP staff to understand potential timelines for availability of this level of storage for use.

The general rules for DR billing are:

  1. Usage will be billed monthly to the University of Illinois CFOP you provide, and charges can be viewed on your Technology Services Statement via the Pinnacle application. Customers agree to keep on file with ICCP a current CFOP with sufficient funds to cover the charges.
  2. We will allocate the full amount you request to your project, so you will be charged monthly for the full amount requested whether you fill the space or not.

NOTE: All ICCP customers will be required to sign the Service Level Definition for the product or service they purchase.  These SLDs outline policies related to these purchases.  Find the appropriate SLD for the product or service you’re considering here.