WEBINAR: Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute’. This webinar took place on 19 August 2021.
Bioinformatics analyses are often complex, requiring multiple software tools and specialised compute...
Keywords: Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, High performance computing, HPC, Galaxy Australia, Nectar Research Cloud, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, NCI, NCMAS, Cloud computing
WEBINAR: Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute
https://zenodo.org/records/5240578
https://dresa.org.au/materials/webinar-where-to-go-when-your-bioinformatics-outgrows-your-compute-7a5a0ff8-8f4f-4fd0-af20-a88d515a6554
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute’. This webinar took place on 19 August 2021.
Bioinformatics analyses are often complex, requiring multiple software tools and specialised compute resources. “I don’t know what compute resources I will need”, “My analysis won’t run and I don’t know why” and "Just getting it to work" are common pain points for researchers. In this webinar, you will learn how to understand the compute requirements for your bioinformatics workflows. You will also hear about ways of accessing compute that suits your needs as an Australian researcher, including Galaxy Australia, cloud and high-performance computing services offered by the Australian Research Data Commons, the National Compute Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey. We also describe bioinformatics and computing support services available to Australian researchers.
This webinar was jointly organised with the Sydney Informatics Hub at the University of Sydney.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
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Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute - slides (PDF and PPTX): Slides presented during the webinar
Australian research computing resources cheat sheet (PDF): A list of resources and useful links mentioned during the webinar.
Materials shared elsewhere:
A recording of the webinar is available on the Australian BioCommons YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/hNTbngSc-W0
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Samaha, Georgina (orcid: 0000-0003-0419-1476)
Chew, Tracy (orcid: 0000-0001-9529-7705)
Sadsad, Rosemarie (orcid: 0000-0003-2488-953X)
Coddington, Paul (orcid: 0000-0003-1336-9686)
Gladman, Simon (orcid: 0000-0002-6100-4385)
Edberg, Roger
Shaikh, Javed
Cytowski, Maciej (orcid: 0000-0002-0007-0979)
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, High performance computing, HPC, Galaxy Australia, Nectar Research Cloud, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, NCI, NCMAS, Cloud computing
HPC file systems and what users need to consider for appropriate and efficient usage
Three videos on miscellaneous aspects of HPC usage - useful reference for new users of HPC systems.
1 – General overview of different file systems that might be available on HPC. The video goes through shared file systems such as /home and /scratch, local compute node file systems (local...
Keywords: HPC, high performance computer, File systems
Resource type: video, presentation
HPC file systems and what users need to consider for appropriate and efficient usage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNW7F9V1plA&list=PLjlLx279X4yO62jHF4rd7I9iEfbnz3Ts1
https://dresa.org.au/materials/hpc-file-systems-and-what-users-need-to-consider-for-appropriate-and-efficient-usage
Three videos on miscellaneous aspects of HPC usage - useful reference for new users of HPC systems.
1 – General overview of different file systems that might be available on HPC. The video goes through shared file systems such as /home and /scratch, local compute node file systems (local scratch or $TMPDIR) and storage file system. It outlines what users need to consider if they wish to use any of these in their workflows.
2 – Overview of the different directories that might be present on HPC. These could include /home, /scratch, /opt, /lib and lib64, /sw and others.
3 – Overview of the Message-of-the-day file and the message that is displayed to users every time they log in. This displays info about general help and often current problems or upcoming outages.
QCIF Training (training@qcif.edu.au)
Marlies Hankel
HPC, high performance computer, File systems
Basic Linux/Unix commands
A series of eight videos (each between 5 and 10 minutes long) following the content of the Software Carpentry workshop "The Unix Shell".
Sessions 1, 2 and 3 provide instructions on the minimal level of Linux/Unix commands recommended for new...
Keywords: HPC, high performance computer, Unix, Linux, Software Carpentry
Resource type: video, guide
Basic Linux/Unix commands
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjlLx279X4yP5GodfbqQTJuJ1S9EJU3GM
https://dresa.org.au/materials/basic-linux-unix-commands
A series of eight videos (each between 5 and 10 minutes long) following the content of the Software Carpentry workshop ["The Unix Shell"](https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/).
Sessions 1, 2 and 3 provide instructions on the minimal level of Linux/Unix commands recommended for new users of HPC.
1 – An overview of how to find out where a user is in the filesystem, list the files there, and how to get help on Unix commands
2 – How to move around the file system and change into other directories
3 – Explains the difference between an absolute and relative path
4 – Overview of how to create new directories, and to create and edit new files with nano
5 – How to use the vi editor to edit files
6 – Overview of file viewers available
7 – How to copy and move files and directories
8 – How to remove files and directories
Further details and exercises with solutions can be found on the Software Carpentry "The Unix Shell" page (https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/)
QCIF Training (training@qcif.edu.au)
Marlies Hankel
HPC, high performance computer, Unix, Linux, Software Carpentry
Transferring files and data
A short video outlining the basics on how to use FileZilla to establish a secure file transfer protocol (sftp) connection to HPC to use a drag and drop interface to transfer files between the HPC and a desktop computer.
Keywords: sftp, file transfer, HPC, high performance computer
Resource type: video, guide
Transferring files and data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABMxcKqfkQ&list=PLjlLx279X4yP3eTLu0S6nOt0HQ7XRf6WF
https://dresa.org.au/materials/transferring-files-and-data
A short video outlining the basics on how to use FileZilla to establish a secure file transfer protocol (sftp) connection to HPC to use a drag and drop interface to transfer files between the HPC and a desktop computer.
QCIF Training (training@qcif.edu.au)
Marlies Hankel
sftp, file transfer, HPC, high performance computer
Connecting to HPC
A series of three short videos introducing how to use PuTTY to connect from a Windows PC to a secure HPC (high performance computing) cluster.
1 - The very basics on how to establish a connection to HPC.
2 - How to add more specific options for the connection to HPC.
3 - How to save the...
Keywords: HPC, high performance computer, ssh
Resource type: video, guide
Connecting to HPC
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjlLx279X4yPJBVQuIRhz1CVMfQpTuvZW
https://dresa.org.au/materials/connecting-to-hpc
A series of three short videos introducing how to use PuTTY to connect from a Windows PC to a secure HPC (high performance computing) cluster.
1 - The very basics on how to establish a connection to HPC.
2 - How to add more specific options for the connection to HPC.
3 - How to save the details and options for a connection for future use.
QCIF Training (training@qcif.edu.au)
Marlies Hankel
HPC, high performance computer, ssh