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Anunna is a High Performance Computer (HPC) infrastructure hosted by Wageningen University & Research Centre. It is open for use for all WUR research groups as well as other organizations, including companies, that have collaborative projects with WUR.

Access Policy

Main Article: Access Policy

Access needs to be granted actively (by creation of an account on the cluster by FB-IT). Use of resources is limited by the scheduler. Note that the use of Anunna is not free of charge.

Our Courses

The Anunna team organizes HPC courses three times a year to strengthen basic & more advanced skills and enable users to make the most effective use of our facility.

Using Anunna

• Costs associated with resource usage

Gaining access to Anunna

Access to the cluster and file transfer are traditionally done via SSH and SFTP.

• Logging into cluster using ssh
• File transfer options
• Alternative access methods, and extra features and services on Anunna
• Data storage methods on Anunna

Using Anunna for courses (mainly jupyter notebooks)

• Steps involved to run a course on Anunna

Events

• Courses that have happened and are happening
• Downtime that will affect all users
• Meetings that may affect the policies of Anunna

Software

• Modules
• Apptainer
• Python
• R
• Julia

CMD-line based Software

Cluster Scheduler

Anunna uses Slurm as job scheduler.

• Submit jobs with Slurm
• Be aware of how much work the cluster is under right now with 'node_usage_graph'
• Rosetta Stone of Workload Managers

Installation of software by users

• Installing domain specific software: installation by users
• Setting local variables
• Installing R packages locally
• Setting up and using a virtual environment for Python3
• Setting up and using a virtual environment for Python3.4 or higher
• Installing WRF and WPS
• Running scripts on a fixed timeschedule (cron)

Useful Notes

Being in control of Environment parameters

• Using environment modules
• Aliases and local variables
• Setting local variables
• Set a custom temporary directory location
• Installing R packages locally
• Setting up and using a virtual environment for Python3
• Locale_settings (how numbers and dates are displayed)

Controlling costs

• using SACCT to see your costs
• using the "get_my_bill" script to estimate costs

Management

Product Owner of Anunna is Alexander van Ittersum (Wageningen UR,FB-IT, C&PS). Fons Prinsen (Wageningen UR, FB-IT, C&PS) is responsible for Maintenance and Management of the cluster.

• Ambitions regarding innovation, support and administration of Anunna

Miscellaneous

• Historical information on the startup of Anunna
• Bioinformatics tips, tricks, and workflows
• Running parallel R code on SLURM
• Convert between MediaWiki format and other formats
• GitLab: Create projects and add scripts
• Monitoring job execution
• Working with shared folders in the Lustre file system
• Running older binaries on the updated OS
• How to change language settings for yourself

See also

• Maintenance and Management
• About ABGC
• High Performance Computing @ABGC
• Lustre Parallel File System layout

External links

SRF offers a HPC facilty

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