VPNaccess is required to log in to the workstation from outside networks.
Your home directory is at /nfs/polizzi/$USER and your username is (first initial) + (last name).
You have read access to others' home directories.
You have read + write access to the shared directory at /nfs/polizzi/shared/.
Tasks can be run directly from the command line. Please be conscious this is a shared resource, so make sure to leave computational resources for others to use!
If you are running a task on multiple cores, you can specify how many cores to use; e.g. with GNU parallel you can specify with the -P flag: parallel -P 32 'python pdb2fasta.py {} > fastas_protassign/{/}' ::: /nfs/polizzi/npolizzi/Combs2/database/pdb_protassign_2p5_0p3_c/*
The workstations a access shared network filesystem (nfs) mounted under /nfs. These files are backed up and shared across computers, but are comparatively slow to access. Therefore, if you have I/O intensive jobs, it is advisable to use a local storage disk, mounted under /scratch. These are not backed up or shared but they are faster to access.
Your home directory is at /home/$USER and your username is (first two letters of first name) + (first letter of last name) + (4 numbers).
You do not have read access to your labmates home directories by default!
If you want to give your labmates access to your home directory, you can change the group of your home directory to polizzi with chgrp -R polizzi ~, and then give everyone in the polizzi access to your home dir with chmod -R g-w ~.
You should have write and read access to the shared lab resources at /n/data1/hms/bcmp/polizzi/lab; if not email IT and ask to be added to the user group polizzi.
When you log in, you are taken to a login node; you are not allowed to run compute-intensive jobs on this. Rather, jobs are sent through the SLURM software, which schedules and manages jobs for the hundreds (thousands)? of users of the shared resources.