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 You can find a (rare) situation where the executable is not present in your user interface but you know for sure that is present in the WNs. Take into account that HTCondor always looks for your executable before submitting your job unless you explicitly add transfer_executable = false in your submit file.
-== Accounting Group ==
+== Accounting Group and +experiment option ==
-The priority of your job is calculated depending on the Accounting Group you belong to. The common users do not have to worry about the Accounting Group, as it will be automatically taken considering the primary group.
+The priority of your job is calculated depending on the Accounting Group you belong to. Regular users do not have to worry about the Accounting Group, as it will be automatically taken considering their primary group.
-Anyway, if you are in two groups and need to change your Accounting Group for any submission, you can add +experiment="experiment" option in your submit file. Thus, for instance, there is one user that has main group vip and secondary group virgo and want to submit a job that only accounts to virgo.
+However, if you are in different groups and need to change your Accounting Group for a specific submission, you can add the +experiment="experiment" option in your submit file. For instance, if a user has vip as a main group and virgo as a secondary group, and wants to submit a job that only accounts to the virgo group:
 <pre>
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-Using the option +experiment="virgo" the job will have the share of the virgo experiment and will also be accounted in our records as a virgo job.
+Using the option +experiment="virgo", the job will have the share of the virgo experiment and will also be accounted for in our records as a virgo job. You can request a job for any group you belong to using the +experiment= knob. If you request a group you do not belong to or one that does not exist, you will not be able to submit the job:
-The local experiments available now at PIC are:
+<pre>
+Submitting job(s).
-*atlas
+ERROR: Failed to commit job submission into the queue.
-*bioinfo
+ERROR: Error: User username is not a member of 'XXXXX'.
-*co2flux
+</pre>
-Furthermore, the automatic assignation of the Accounting Groups is also done for those groups that have dedicated User Interfaces (such as mic.magic, at3 and ui01-virgo). In that case, the Accounting Group is created according to the User Interface group owner. In other words, it does not matter the main group of the user, if I submit a job from mic.magic machine, my AccountingGroup belongs to magic.
+Furthermore, the automatic assignment of the Accounting Groups is also done for those groups that have dedicated User Interfaces (such as mic.magic and at3). In that case, the Accounting Group is determined according to the User Interface's group owner. In other words, the main group of the user does not matter; if a job is submitted from the mic.magic machine, the AccountingGroup will belong to magic.
 == Priority per user basis ==

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 This directory is your main place for storage for software, scripts, logs, and long term data files.
-It is backed-up and has 10GiB of capacity.
+It is backed-up and has 25GiB of capacity.
 === Massive storage ===

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 It is backed-up and has 10GiB of capacity.
 === Massive storage ===
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 Each user has a scratch space at the following path:
   /data/{EXPERIMENT}/scratch/{USER}/
-This space is thought as a volatile sandbox. If you produce results that may be important for the project, ask your contact person and they will move the data into the /pnfs storage.
+Hosted in the Ceph platform, this space is thought as a volatile sandbox, it does not have backups. If you produce results that may be important for the project, ask your contact person and they will move the data into the /pnfs storage.
 Please note that all '''data older than 6 months may be erased at any time''' without prior notice.
 '''Any location not included in the former paths is not allowed and its contents erased on sight.'''