General scratches (/scratch/Lake, /scratch/Bio, /scratch/Chimie, /scratch/Cascade) are not regularly cleaned. It is your task to clean after your jobs. Scratches perfomances are degrading because of that,
We are using “powersave” mode on our clusters, to save our cooling system,
ssh agent and keys will become mandatory (soon, september 2026) to login on ssh gateways.
See Documentation: https://www.ens-lyon.fr/PSMN/Documentation/connection/ssh_keys_and_agent.html
Have a nice summer.