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Your Instructor

Anna is a member of the new Center for Biomedical Research Support (CBRS), which is home to a number of core facilities: GSAF, Proteomics/Mass Spec, Microscopy, Crystallography, Mouse Genetic Engineering....

  • Anna Battenhouse, Associate Research Scientist, abattenhouse@utexas.edu
    • BA English literature, 1978, Carleton College
    • Commercial software development 1982 – 2007
      • Texas Instruments, Motorola ...
      • lots of software development experience but limited Unix/Linux
    • Joined Iyer Lab 2007 (functional genomics)
      • “retirement career”
      • began to appreciate Linux & bash (slowly)
    • BS Biochemistry, 2013, UT
    • Affiliations as of summer 2017:
      • Biomedical Research Computing Facility (BRCF)
      • Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG)
      • Marcotte lab (proteomics)

The Biomedical Research Computing Facility is (BRCF) is the CBRS core facility that supports local research computing.

Your TA

  • Benni Goetz, Associate Research Scientist, benni@utexas.edu 
    • BS Math and Physics, Duke University
    • MS Math, UT Austin
    • Affiliations:
      • Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG)
      • Genome Sequencing and Analysis Facility (GSAF)
    • Enthusiastic about:
      • Differential geometry
      • Python
      • Large, gregarious, tusked mammals

About You

Tell us a bit about yourself, such as:

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We have set up 50 "student" accounts, named student01 , student02 ... student50 . Let's each pick You have each been assigned one...

The super-secret password for all these accounts is:  AdvancedBash-Training

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Warning

These credentials are active for the next few days, but will be de-activated at the end of this week (Friday April 26August 23).

Servers

With this account you can ssh into one of the following servers (please divide yourselves among them):

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You can connect your Mac or Windows laptop to your Home directory using the Samba network file system protocol. Once this is set up, you can use your favorite desktop code editing GUI to open/, edit/, and save files to your home directory.

Tip
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Make sure you save script files with Unix/Linux line endings (linefeed only, not carriage_return + linefeed as is the Windows default).

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  • Bring up Windows Explorer (e.g. Ctrl- <Windows key>)
  • Select This PC → Computer tab → Map network drive
  • In the Map Network Drive dialog box
    • Select a drive letter (e.g. W: )
    • In the Folder text box, enter: \\gsafstor01.ccbb.utexas.edu\users
    • Check the Connect using different credentials checkbox
    • Select Finish
    • In the Enter network credentials dialog
      • Enter your student account name and password AdvancedBash-Training
      • Select OK
  • You should now see a users (\\gsafstor01.ccbb.utexas.edu) (W:) item under This PC in Windows Explorer

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