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by benlivengood 739 days ago
Why should that <1% of users be at risk of not graduating because of local data loss?

Teach students about backups and make network storage available for the code and recoverable checkpoints to restart failed simulations/computations.

If reliable, available storage isn't available for all students to graduate then allocate more money to technology resources. Speed is much less of an issue if it's only used for periodic checkpoints.