We followed the intro SCITAS Course to connect to the Clusters Documentation is here: https://scitas-data.epfl.ch/public/training/using_the_clusters.pdf command id to know to which group you belong https://scitas-data.epfl.ch/kb/File+systems to get some information on FIleSystem =Structure of cluster = `/home/username` your personal area, shared among all 3 clusters `/work/ptbiop` where biop software are installed, shared among all 3 clusters `/scratch/username` is a high performance file system where we put the data we need to work on, it is not shared and depends on the cluster you are connected to =How to connect= Type `ssh gasparlogin@clustername.epfl.ch` and give your password. For instance if Nico wants to connect to the deneb1 cluster (there's also deneb2 and fidis) : `ssh chiarutt@deneb1.epfl.ch`. =How to transfer data into the server= == Windows users == == Linux users == =How to install software= You can install either software (unix executable / java applications) into your folder. =How to install software within your folder = =How to install software within the BIOP work folder = =How to launch a job= == Example Ilastik Launch == == Example CellProfiler Launch == == Example Fiji Launch ==

We followed the intro SCITAS Course to connect to the Clusters Documentation is here: https://scitas-data.epfl.ch/public/training/using_the_clusters.pdf command id to know to which group you belong https://scitas-data.epfl.ch/kb/File+systems to get some information on FIleSystem =Structure of cluster = `/home/username` your personal area, shared among all 3 clusters `/work/ptbiop` where biop software are installed, shared among all 3 clusters `/scratch/username` is a high performance file system where we put the data we need to work on, it is not shared and depends on the cluster you are connected to =How to connect= Type `ssh gasparlogin@clustername.epfl.ch` and give your password. For instance if Nico wants to connect to the deneb1 cluster (there's also deneb2 and fidis) : `ssh chiarutt@deneb1.epfl.ch`. =How to transfer data into the server= == Windows users == == Linux users == == Where == For temporary jobs, put to `\scratch\gasparlogin`. For instance Nico can type `cd \scratch\chiarutt` then `ls` to list the contents of this folder within a terminal. =How to install software= You can install either software (unix executable / java applications) into your folder. =How to install software within your folder = =How to install software within the BIOP work folder = = Testing simple tasks on the cluster = By default you are connected to the so-called login node, which is not a processing node. You can browse, copy files, do your stuff, even launch ImageJ / Ilastik / Whateve(r) , but this is not where you are supposed to do heavy processing! Described below: * how to launch process in the login node (in order to understand a bit about unix commands) * how to launch a JOB, i.e. which is calling a request to launch a process. == How to launch a process == == Example Ilastik Launch == `./run_ilastik.sh --headless --project=/scratch/chiarutt/ilps/MyProject.ilp /scratch/chiarutt/images_in/Vesicles.tif ` == Example CellProfiler Launch == == Example Fiji Launch == = Software available = In the work folder. Fiji is available. As several FIJI may be required depending on the configuration, the first one, which do not have any plugin installed, is the default one. == DEFAULT FIJI == No update site installed. Just a raw updated fiji. * Location folder: ` \work\DefaultFiji` == Ilaslik ==

We followed the intro SCITAS Course to connect to the Clusters Documentation is here: https://scitas-data.epfl.ch/public/training/using_the_clusters.pdf command id to know to which group you belong https://scitas-data.epfl.ch/kb/File+systems to get some information on FIleSystem =Structure of cluster = `/home/username` your personal area, shared among all 3 clusters `/work/ptbiop` where biop software are installed, shared among all 3 clusters `/scratch/username` is a high performance file system where we put the data we need to work on, it is not shared and depends on the cluster you are connected to =How to connect= Type `ssh gasparlogin@clustername.epfl.ch` and give your password. For instance if Nico wants to connect to the deneb1 cluster (there's also deneb2 and fidis) : `ssh chiarutt@deneb1.epfl.ch`. =How to transfer data into the server= == Windows users == == Linux users == == Where == For temporary jobs, put to `\scratch\gasparlogin`. For instance Nico can type `cd \scratch\chiarutt` then `ls` to list the contents of this folder within a terminal. =How to install software= You can install either software (unix executable / java applications) into your folder. =How to install software within your folder = =How to install software within the BIOP work folder = = Testing simple tasks on the cluster = By default you are connected to the so-called login node, which is not a processing node. You can browse, copy files, do your stuff, even launch ImageJ / Ilastik / Whateve(r) , but this is not where you are supposed to do heavy processing! =How to launch a jobDescribed below: * how to launch process in the login node (in order to understand a bit about unix commands) * how to launch a JOB, i.e. which is calling a request to launch a process. == How to launch a process == == Example Ilastik Launch == `./run_ilastik.sh --headless --project=/scratch/chiarutt/ilps/MyProject.ilp /scratch/chiarutt/images_in/Vesicles.tif ` == Example CellProfiler Launch == == Example Fiji Launch == = Software available = In the work folder. Fiji is available. As several FIJI may be required depending on the configuration, the first one, which do not have any plugin installed, is the default one. == DEFAULT FIJI == No update site installed. Just a raw updated fiji. * Location folder: ` \work\DefaultFiji` == Ilaslik ==