RAC transition FAQ

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Allocations from the 2019 Resource Allocation Competition come into effect on 2019 April 4. Here are some notes on how we expect the transition from 2018 to 2019 allocations to go.

Storage

• 30 days overlap
• For small amounts users do it themselves, larger amounts (>200TB?) maybe staff will need to help
• In principle adopt the largest of the 2 quotas (2018, 2019) during the transition period
• Contributed storage systems have different dates of activation and decommissioning. For these we 'll be doing the SUM(2018, 2019)
• For every other PI we use default quotas

Job scheduling

• RAC 2019 allocations may not be active exactly on April 4th
• Default allocations may face decreased priority as the RAC 2019 allocations become active and the RAC 2018 allocations are deactivated.

Resource Allocation Competition