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Commit be890f92 authored by Sebastian Döbel's avatar Sebastian Döbel
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Adds reference to cache dirs which should not be placed inside users home

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2 merge requests!1164Automated merge from preview to main,!1151Document possibility to use alternative cache directories
......@@ -31,6 +31,20 @@ submit jobs into the batch system. Running jobs are not affected.
We have no feasible way to get the contribution of
a single user to a project's disk usage.
Because of the quota, it is recommended not to store cache data, which is automatically
created by some applications or frameworks, in `/tmp` or in workspaces.
We cannot list all applications that do this, but some known ones are
| Application | Environment variable |
|:-----------------|:----------------------------------|
| Singularity | `SINGULARITY_CACHEDIR` |
| pip | `PIP_CACHE_DIR` |
| Hugging Face | `HF_HOME` and `TRANSFORMERS_CACHE`|
| Torch Extensions | `TORCH_EXTENSIONS_DIR` |
Python virtual environments and conda directories can grow quickly,
so they should also be placed inside workspaces.
## Global /projects Filesystem
For project data, we have a global project directory, that allows better collaboration between the
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