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TACC compute clusters now share a common $WORK file system called stockyard. So files in your $WORK area do not have to be copied, for example from stampede to ls5 ("lonestar5") – they can be accessed from either cluster.
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Once that data is staged to the ranch disk it can be copied to other places. However, the ranch file system is not mounted as a local file system from the stampede or lonestar5 ls5 clusters. So remote copy commands are needed to copy data to and from ranch (e.g. scp, sftp, rsync).
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