The HPC is changing

We will soon be switching to a new High Performance Cluster, called Double Helix. This will mean that some of the commands you use to connect to the HPC and call modules will change. We will inform you by email when you are switching over, allowing you to make the necessary changes to your scripts. Please check our HPC changeover notes for more details on what will change.

Technical information

The Genomics England Research Environment consists of two main platforms, a Linux Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) hosted by AWS and a High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster.

Research Environment Desktop

Access

This document details how to install an AWS client, set up two-factor authentication and access the RE with AWS.

Use of the Research Environment desktop

The Research Environment desktop is best suited for light computational tasks, such as generating summaries from phenotypic data, doing simple LabKey queries and so on. Memory and processing power is limited.

HPC environment

All heavy compute tasks must be run on the Genomics England High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster. To run such jobs you will need to connect to the login node and submit the job from there.