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Working on Wynton HPC

Alexander Pico edited this page Apr 21, 2020 · 16 revisions

Description

Are you reaching the limits of your laptop? Are you new to working on clusters and high performance computing (HPC)? New to Wynton? This workshop will start with basic definitions for computing in a cluster environment, including types of nodes, queues and containers. We will cover how to transfer files, submit jobs and run analyses. Analyses can be simple scripts, pipelines or custom-built containers. By the end of this workshop you should be comfortable with...

  • Getting around Wynton
  • Transerfing files in and out of Wynton
  • Submitting jobs to the queue system
  • Launching pipelines
  • Finding available software modules and container resources
  • Building your own custome containers

Learning Path

Advanced   This is an advanced workshop in the Computer Skills series. Prior experience with command line is required. See introductory workshop:

Materials


New workshop! Materials are being prepared...


Pre-workshop Instructions

  1. Make sure you have a Wynton account and can log in

Online Learning

The bulk of the material is hosted on Gladstone's internal wiki. Gladstone researchers can navigate multiple pages of documentation, starting from https://confluence.gladstone.org/confluence/display/RG/Getting+Started+on+Wynton

We will eventually provide these pages as PDF documents more generally, but this is still a work in progress...

You can also find Wynton's official documentation by starting at https://wynton.ucsf.edu/hpc/get-started/access-cluster.html