Cardinal
Citation
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To cite Cardinal, please use the following information:
Ohio Supercomputer Center. (2024). Cardinal Cluster. Ohio Supercomputer Center. https://doi.org/10.82404/AGSZ-1952
New scratch storage policy implemented
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has implemented a new scratch filesystem storage policy. The purge period has changed from 90 days inactivity to 60 days inactivity to help alleviate recent storage stress on our scratch filesystem: https://www.osc.edu/resources/security_accessibility_and_policies
Podman
Podman is an Open Containers Initiative (OCI)‑compliant, daemonless and rootless container tool developed by Red Hat. Unlike Docker, Podman operates without a central daemon and supports secure rootless execution, making it well‑suited for HPC environments and schedulers such as Slurm.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
Podman is available on all OSC clusters. Only one version is available at any given time. To find out the current version: