Atmosphere: iPlant’s Cloud Computing Service

Overview How to connect to Atmosphere & start a virtual machine Ways to log in to a VM A simple R command Features of a VM – Sharing a session with collaborators – Printing a file – Copy & Paste from my local computer to the VM

How to Connect to Atmosphere & Initiate a VM Model we follow: App store Access to preconfigured Virtual Machines Log in screen Screen after log in VM status atmo.iplantcollaborative.org

Different Ways to Log in to VMs

iDrop - A Way to Move Data

Use Case #1 Study the mechanism of duplication – Sizes of genes – Forces under they are at – Specific pattern of nt exchange How Gene duplication impacts stress response evolution of A.thaliana paralogs How paralogs are regulated

Flow of Hands-on Copy file(s) from my computer to data storage iDROP Copy file to data storage, then to my VM home dir iput & iget Start R from the command line in VM R Move to the dir where my file is setwd Read the file into R Read.csv Make a plot(s) pdf, plot & hist

Results

Printing to Local Printer

Sharing with other users Sharing of a Session

Copy and Paste

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