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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.

About

• Historical information on the startup of Anunna

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 and Tutorials

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.

• Linux Basic
• HPC Basic
• HPC Advanced
• 2026 Course dates
• Tutorials

Using Anunna

• Costs associated with resource usage

Getting support

• Get support with using Anunna (open a ticket with the HPC team)

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

Browser apps

This page provides an overview of the GUI-based applications available Anunna, including background information and practical guidance on how to access and use interactive desktops and graphical tools directly from your web browser.

• General Overview
• Anunna Shell Access
• File Browser
• Jupyter
• R Studio
• Linux Desktop
• Requesting New Software

Command-line 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'

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
• 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

• Bioinformatics tips, tricks, and workflows
• Running parallel R code on SLURM
• 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
• Lustre Parallel File System layout

External links

SRF offers a HPC facilty

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