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National Center for Genome Analysis Support: ACI-REF Virtual Residency May 31 st - June 6 th 2015, OU 28 people from all over the country in person 22 people attended virtually Now a biweekly meeting via conference call
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September 2, 2015
ACI-REF Mission: User Sensitivity 101
Tom DoakLe-Shin Wu
Carrie GanoteNational Center for Genome Analysis Support
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Outline
• ACI-REF? What’s that? • What is the problem• What you can do
Patience, Resources, Training
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
How I got involved
ACI-REF Virtual Residency May 31st - June 6th 2015, OU
28 people from all over the country in person22 people attended virtuallyNow a biweekly meeting via conference call
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
ACI-REFAdvanced CyberInfrastructure –
Research and Education Facilitators
Some Stats:NSF Award #1341935$5,295,574.00
Goals: Better engagement and utilization of CI through user support and condominium computing
Initial awardees:University of HawaiiUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of UtahUniversity of WisconsinClemsonHarvard University.
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
ACI-REF Aims• Promote Condominium
Computing Models• Increase worth of invested $ in CI• Provide resources for others to
connect with users
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
In other words…
Supercomputing is hard.
Let’s try to make it more accessible!
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
• It’s a huge investment if it will only serve a tiny fraction of the institution
Who should use cyberinfrastructure?
My lab uses 99.87% of the university’s cyberinfrastucture! I don’t need my own grant! Whoohoo!
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
A long tail of science
Expertise in high
performance computing
Number of researchers
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
The Problem
“My computer is broken” –
…- “So you brought me your monitor?”
You must be this tall
You must be this tall
(So let’s get you a step-stool)
ACI-REF
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Comic provided by XKCD: http://xkcd.com/293/
man(1) man(1)
NAME man - format and display the on-line manual pages
SYNOPSIS man [-acdDfFhkKtwW] [--path] [-m system] [-p string] [-C config_file] [-M pathlist] [-P pager] [-B browser] [-H htmlpager] [-S section_list] [section] name ...
DESCRIPTION man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. If you specify section, man only looks in that section of the manual. name is normally the name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command, function, or file. However, if name contains a slash (/) then man interprets it as a file specification, so that you can do man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.
MANUAL SECTIONS The standard sections of the manual include:
6 Games et. Al.
7 Miscellanea
8 System Administration tools and Deamons
Distributions customize the manual section to their specifics, which often include additional sections.
Forget it
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Unknown Unknowns
(Looking at you, perlvar)
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
• Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience
• Illumination, explanation, documentation
• Explain WHY• Ask questions
Your homework
rm –rf /
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Users are very good at learning by recognizing patterns.
“I can’t login to XSEDE.” –
- “What is your username?”
“johndoe” –- “Show me how you
login.”
“Okay:” –
password:
Permission denied
Document carefully
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
• We all encounter the same kinds of problems
• You don’t scale well• StackExchange• KB Docs
Let’s Share
Clouds by cjohnson7 from Rochester, Minnesota
Let’s find ways to get people using the resources with a gentle learning
curve!
Gateways and Clouds
Gateways…
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
We’re doing a great job:
Upcoming training Introductory Parallel Programming for Supercomputers Sep 8th in IUPUI and Sep 10th in IUB, 9am-5 pm
Unix: The Basics Sep 22nd in IUB and Sep 23rd in IUPUI, 9am-12 pm
Faster Work, Safer Storage (an introduction to HPC) Sep 22nd in IUB and Sep 23rd in IUPUI, 1pm-5 pm
Training
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Other opportunities at IU:
Indiana UniversitySeptember 17-18, 20159:00 am - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Asela Wijeratne
Training
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Next in-person meetup is at Supercomputing in Austin, TX.
If you are interested in next year’s workshops, feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Get involved
National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.org
Thanks for watching!
Questions?Questions?
