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- 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 Vishwanath Iyer Lab 2007 (functional genomics)
- “retirement career”
- began to appreciate Linux & bash (slowly)
- BS Biochemistry, 2013, UT
- Current affiliations:
- Manager, Biomedical Research Computing Facility (BRCF)
- member, Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG)
- member, Marcotte lab (systems biology/proteomics)
The Biomedical Research Computing Facility (BRCF)
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and the Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG) are CBRS core
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facilities that
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support local research computing.
Note that Anna is not a Unix guru – there's a world of things she doesn't know! But she knows enough to be considered expert-ish 
About you
Who has had command-line experience before? (E.g. Linux, Unix/Mac Unix, DOS)
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- The upside of this is that it affords tremendous flexibility, letting you perform complex data manipulations on the command line without writing a formal program or script.
- The downside is that there are a lot of tools to learn, each with many options/switches.
- See Intro Unix: Some Linux commands for a gentle introduction to many useful Linux tools and some of their common options.
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We have set up 99 "student" accounts, named student21 student01 , student22 student99 .... We'll assign one to you.
The password for these accounts is written on provided in the whiteboardChat.
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These credentials are active for the next several daysfew weeks, but will be de-activated on Saturday Sunday May 2012, 2024, 2023 in the evening. |
With your studentNN account you can ssh into one of the following servers:
- gsafcomp01.ccbb.utexas.edu – odd number studentNN accounts
- gsafcomp02.ccbb.utexas.edu – even number studentNN accounts
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If you are not on the UT campus network, you'll need to have the UT VPN service active in order to connect to these servers. See How to Connect to the UT VPN |
Logging in
You access the servers using ssh in a Terminal program that runs on your computer. On Macs, this program is called Terminal. On Windows (Windows 10 or later) it is called Command Prompt or PowerShell. Find and open this program now on your computer.
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