Scientific Computing Announcements

Fasterq Dump Issue

fasterq-dump is a command-line utility used to extract FASTQ or FASTA data from SRA-accessions.

Rhino/Gizmo Updates, 10 September 2022

On 10 September 2022 the Systems Engineering team will be updating the operating system on the file server silver which hosts fast, home directories, and man...

Gizmo Scratch Maintenance

The gizmo cluster will be unavailable during the Scratch file system rebuild. To prevent jobs from running during this time we have placed a maintenance re...

AWS Cloud Migration

We’re getting ready to migrate to our new AWS environment! This new environment will provide many benefits over the current account structure and enable Sci...

Gizmo Bionic Upgrade

The current operating system used on the Gizmo cluster and Rhino login nodes is Ubuntu 14.04. This version has been out of support for some time now and is ...

STAR-2.7.3a

STAR aligns RNA-seq reads to a reference genome using uncompressed suffix arrays.

Python 3.6.5 Software Release

I’m happy to announce the latest Python release for the Gizmo cluster. This is our biggest and best Python release to date. To access use the modules comman...