Oak

Oak is Stanford’s high-performance computing storage system, closely tied to Sherlock and managed by the Stanford Research Computing team. SDSS offers PIs a standard 10TB Oak allocation at no charge, with increased allocations available upon request. We also provide free backups of all Oak spaces to Google Cloud.

Requesting an Allocation¶

Please email sdss-compute@stanford.edu to request a new Oak space.

Managing Your Oak Space¶

Access¶

Access to Oak spaces are managed by Stanford workgroups. You can find the workgroup associated with your Oak space as oak:<pi_sunet>. If you need any help with access administraiton, please reach out to sdss-compute@stanford.edu.

Files and Quotas¶

Every Oak space comes with a dashboard that provides information on storage quota, storage utiliziation, inodes, and per-user breakdowns. Anyone who has access to the Oak space should have access to the dashboard.

To access your dashboard, please see instructions on this page.