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

2. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org ACI-REF? What’s that? What is the problem What you can do Patience, Resources, Training

3. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org 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

4. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Advanced 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 Hawaii University of Southern California University of Utah University of Wisconsin Clemson Harvard University.

5. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Promote Condominium Computing Models Increase worth of invested $ in CI Provide resources for others to connect with users

6. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Supercomputing is hard. Let’s try to make it more accessible!

7. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org 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!

8. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Expertise in high performance computing Number of researchers

9. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org “My computer is broken” – … - “So you brought me your monitor?”

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

12. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Comic provided by XKCD: http://xkcd.com/293/ 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

13. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org (Looking at you, perlvar)

14. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Patience Illumination, explanation, documentation Explain WHY Ask questions rm –rf /

15. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://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:” – ssh johndoeXUPuser@login.xsede.org password: Permission denied

16. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org We all encounter the same kinds of problems You don’t scale well StackExchange KB Docs

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

19. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org

20. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://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

21. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Other opportunities at IU: Indiana University September 17-18, 2015 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Instructor: Asela Wijeratne

22. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://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 cganote@iu.edu

23. National Center for Genome Analysis Support: http://ncgas.orghttp://ncgas.org Thanks for watching!