HOWTO, Gaudet Lab, Harvard University

This is an old wiki page and is out-of-date. It's been retained as some of this information may still be useful.

Site Overview:

Members of the Gaudet Lab at Harvard University have access to two graphical workstations , Pioneer and Cobincho, and a regular workstation ‘Curry’, all running a large collection of structural biology software. The linux workstations share authentication and data directories. Pioneer contains a license for running HKL2000.

Research Computing support is provided by SBGrid. P lease contact SBGrid here .

Workstations:

Name Operating System Hardware Configuration Location Last Checked Notes
cobincho CentOS 6.5, Intel Core i7 CPU at 3.6GHz, 4 Cores. 32 GB of RAM. Nvidia Quadro 4000. NW 305 10/24/2014  
curry CentOS 6.5 Intel Core i7 CPU at 2.8GHz, 4 Cores. 2GB of RAM. Nvidia Quadro FX 380. NW 305 10/27/2014  
pioneer CentOS 6.4 Intel Core i7 CPU at 3.6GHz, 4 Cores. 32 GB of RAM. Nvidia Quadro 4000. NW 305 10/24/2014 HKL2000 licensed system.

Printers:

Name Model Location Notes
carmen HP LaserJet 4700 Computer Lab color printer
vger Ricoh Aficio C410 Wet Lab color printer

Using SBGrid programs:

All applications are located in /programs directory and are configured to run without additional settings. In most cases, you will easily be able to run any program in the collection by opening up a terminal shell, and typing the name of the program that you want to run.

Data Replication:

Data is replicated to a secondary server. Snapshots are taken every hour and kept for 24 hours. Additionally, 7 daily snapshots are kept, 8 weeks, and up to 12 months. If you need a file restored,  please contact SBGrid here .

##Remote access:

SSH access is available through galactica.mcb.harvard.edu . Remote access is not enabled by default. If you need to access Galactica remotely,  please contact SBGrid  here .

##Networking and General IT Support:

To report problems regarding the network at Harvard University, or general computing support, contact the Harvard University Help desk.