MSI environment aliases

Aliases for Home directory and Project spaces

The following aliases have been made available for users, we advise using them in place of file paths to the project space or home directory wherever possible. They can be utilized on login nodes and within job scripts.

LocationFile pathEnvironment VariableShell Alias
User Home Directory/users/*/INTERNETID$HOMEcd
Primary Project Directory/projects/standard/PROJECT_NAME$MSIPROJECTmsiproject
Primary Project Shared/projects/standard/PROJECT_NAME/shared$SHAREDshared
Old Home Directory1/projects/standard/PROJECT_NAME/INTERNETID$OLDHOMEoldhome
Scratch Global/scratch.global/

$SCRATCH

$SCRATCH_GLOBAL

scratch
Scratch Local2/scratch.local/$SCRATCH_LOCALscratch.local
  1. Users that joined before September 2024 maintenance will have an old home directory, all new users will not have one generated. We would recommend creating a work directory in the Project shared directory.
  2. Local Scratch is only available if requested during a job with the --tmp flag
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