The goal is to provide a balanced computing environment with appropriate amounts of storage and adequate bandwidth to keep the compute engines fed with data. Storage management also recognizes storage as a distinct resource, in support of an increasing amount of data intensive computing. Finally, storage management and the quota system are intended to encourage efficient usage by the user community. SRUs are monitored on a monthly basis.
Yearly usage is the sum of monthly usage.
SRU management and tracking Monitoring SRU usage is available only through this web interface. Each month a SRU charge is calculated for each user using the formula given above. The SRUs used by each user in a repo are subtracted from that repo's allocation. If a single username belongs to more than one repo, that user's monthly SRU charge is apportioned among the repos. Each user can assign a percentage of his or her SRU usage to each of his or her repos.