====== Use /tmp for I/O intensive single node jobs ======

Jobs that do a lot of I/O operations on a shared cluster filesystem like ''/scratch'' can severely slow down the whole system. If your job does not use multiple nodes and is not reading and writing very large files, it might be a good idea to move input and output files to the ''/tmp'' folder on the compute node itself. ''/tmp'' is a RAM based filesystem, meaning that anything you store there is actually stored in memory. So space is quite limited. Currently you can use at most 24GB of ''/tmp'' space. Since ''/tmp'' uses RAM, usage also counts towards the allocated memory limit (e.g. --mem or --mem-per-cpu settings). So the memory that the process uses during calculation plus the amount of data stored in files below /tmp can not exceed the total amount of RAM installed in the compute node. Let's look at some examples...

===== Please note: usable space below /tmp is limited by the --mem option =====

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