Fasterq Dump Issue
fasterq-dump is a command-line utility used to extract FASTQ or FASTA data from SRA-accessions.
Scientific Computing Announcements
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...
Gizmo Grabnode
Effective 8 August 2021
Control Group Resource Management
We are making some changes to gizmo that will ensure that jobs have access to the resources requested.
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 Updates
Changes to Bionic Nodes
Gizmo Bionic Updates
Known Issues in the Bionic Environment
Notes for Changes to NoMachine in Bionic
With the new roll out of the Bionic nodes for the Gizmo computing environment we have made some changes to NoMachine and what this service is providing.
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.
Environment Modules after Upgrade
Hello to all Data Scientists and HPC Users!
High Performance Computing Systems Upgrade 2019 Announcement
UPDATE: This work has been delayed. Dates indicated below are no longer accurate and will be corrected in a later announcement
June SciComp Updates
Latest R: R/3.5.0-foss-2016b-fh1 Latest Python: Python/3.6.5-foss-2016b-fh3
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...