Introduction

Since the 6TB expansion at the end of June 2016, there has been substantial harddisk space free, for several months it was 15TB, which seemed a little too much unused space.

However, there are bioinformatics workloads that can make short work of that sort of capacity. At the beginning of the year, a user ate up 9TB without knowing it, usually do to big alignments whihc trhow out some very big sam and bam files that really need to be supervised and