TACC - High Performance Computing for NextGen Sequence Analysis

Oct 8, 2012

Location: ACES 2.402 ; 9 am - 2 pm (CDT)

Your Instructors

Name

Initials

Affiliation

 

Matt Vaughn

MWV

Manager, TACC Life Sciences

 

John Fonner

JF

Research Associate, TACC Life Sciences

 

Scott Hunicke-Smith

 

Director, GSAF

in absentia

Jeff Barrick

 

Asst. Prof. Biochemistry

in absentia

Learning objectives

  1. Role of TACC for UT System researchers
  2. Logging into Lonestar and other TACC systems
  3. Batch vs interactive computing on Lonestar
  4. The TACC software environmment
  5. File systems available on TACC Lonestar
  6. Parallelism strategies for increasing efficiency of NextGen analyses
  7. Use of idev interactive sessions on TACC systems
  8. Moving files via SFTP and SCP

Outline

Linux and Lonestar Refresher Course (9:00-10:00)

Break (10:00-10:15)

Delving into HPC-oriented NGS analysis (10:15-11:15)

Speeding up your analyses using parallel computing (11:15-11:50)

Set-up for Afternoon (11:50-12:00)

Lunch (12:00-1:00)

  • Please return promptly!

Variant Calling with SAMtools (1:00-1:40)

Downloading and uploading files using SFTP (1:40-1:50)

Review (1:50-2:00)

After-class QA (2:00-2:30)