September 2, 2015 ACI-REF Mission: User Sensitivity 101 Tom Doak Le-Shin Wu Carrie Ganote National Center for Genome Analysis Support

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: ACI-REF? What’s that? What is the problem What you can do Patience, Resources, Training

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

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Advanced CyberInfrastructure – Research and Education Facilitators Some Stats: NSF Award # $5,295, Goals: Better engagement and utilization of CI through user support and condominium computing Initial awardees: University of Hawaii University of Southern California University of Utah University of Wisconsin Clemson Harvard University.

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Promote Condominium Computing Models Increase worth of invested $ in CI Provide resources for others to connect with users

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Supercomputing is hard. Let’s try to make it more accessible!

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: It’s a huge investment if it will only serve a tiny fraction of the institution My lab uses 99.87% of the university’s cyberinfrastucture! I don’t need my own grant! Whoohoo!

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Expertise in high performance computing Number of researchers

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: “My computer is broken” – … - “So you brought me your monitor?”

(So let’s get you a step-stool) ACI-REF

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Comic provided by XKCD: 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: (Looking at you, perlvar)

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Illumination, explanation, documentation Explain WHY Ask questions rm –rf /

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: 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:” – ssh password: Permission denied

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: We all encounter the same kinds of problems You don’t scale well StackExchange KB Docs

Clouds by cjohnson7 from Rochester, Minnesota Let’s find ways to get people using the resources with a gentle learning curve!

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National Center for Genome Analysis Support: 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

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Other opportunities at IU: Indiana University September 17-18, :00 am - 4:30 pm Instructor: Asela Wijeratne

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: 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

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Thanks for watching!