POD Software Information

All POD compute servers have (nearly) identical Ubuntu 20.04 Operating System configurations.

A number of additional tools and packages have been installed on all compute servers, as listed below. And some PODs also have additional software installed that is unique to that POD.

Users can perform local (per-user) installations that do not require administrative (root/sudo) access. For software that does require sudo, or if you would like a package installed globally for use by others, please email us at rctf-support@utexas.edu.

Unlike TACC, we do not implement a module system. Rather, we install different versions of a program side-by-side, with names differing by their versions (for example:

• Rscript (the default version, same as Rscript-4-3.1), Rscript-4.3.1, Rscript-4.0.3, Rscript-3.6.3

• samtools (the default, version 1.10), samtools-1.9, samtools-1.11

In particular, multiple versions of R and Python are installed side-by-side. For more information, see:

• About R and R Studio Server

• About Python and JupyterHub server

Often you can see if there are multiple versions of a program installed just by typing its name and hitting the Tab key twice. For example, typing bedtools then Tab Tab shows this:

Some tool "suites" that have many sub-program binaries, are not made available on the standard PATH. The /stor/system/opt directory on your system contains installation directories for these tools, which can be added to your PATH as needed. Examples include multiple versions of the sratoolkit and the picard-tools suites. E.g.:

/stor/system/opt also contains a directory with complete BLAST databases: /stor/system/opt/blastdb, which is updated regularly.

All compute servers have a shared, read-only /mnt/bioi directory mounted that contains many useful bioinformatics resources such as annotations and other references in /mnt/bioi/ref_genome and external data in /mnt/bio/data).

Specifically, the /mnt/bioi/tools directory contains several tool suites and their associated data (e.g. cellranger, GSEA), and each tool suite directory has multiple tool version sub-directories. Like the suites in /stor/system/opt, the associated binaries are not on your PATH by default, but can be added as needed, e.g.:

The following web application software is available on all PODs.  Accessing a POD node with your web browser will take you to an application login page where your BRCF account credentials can be used to access the application's web interface. Your default directory will be your Home directory. See Home directory quotas for important storage-quota related information.