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Disk Maintenance: The Cleanup Utility |
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About -
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Written by Mark Chandler
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GCMs are good at two things: simulating global climate, and consuming huge amounts of hard disk space with output. Most research institutions use large arrays of disk drives to store these massive amounts of data, but that is a luxury few schools will have. As a solution, EdGCM contains a "smart" Cleanup utility. The Cleanup utility allows users to keep track of total disk space as well as the amount of space occupied by GCM simulation output. If storage space becomes limited, the Cleanup utility allows users to intelligently clean up the disk (i.e., without damaging the ability to later revisit simulation results) by removing the least important files first.
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