Andrew Severin

Andrew Severin

Andrew manages the Genome Informatics Facility at Iowa State University. His academic background is in biochemistry with a Ph.D. in Biophysics/NMR spectroscopy. He is an interdisciplinary scientist working at the interface of Genetics and Bioinformatics, translating Big Data into informative data for interesting biological questions. He is passionate about evolution and the science behind the genome.

DataScience Workbook / 06: High-Performance Computing (HPC) / 1. Introduction to HPC infrastructure / 1.1. ACCESS - an advanced computing and data resource program / 1.1.1. XSEDE supercell storage

Introduction

XSEDE has been replaced by ACCESS. Check the for more information.

Using Supercell-Storage server for backing up and restoring data from PSC servers

This guide will help you getting started and using the Supercell. If you haven’t already gotten a username/password for PSC systems (eg., Blacklight), you need to do it now. Use the password reset link.

Accessing Supercell

SFTP is the best method to browse the files and create the directory structure you want.

sftp username@data.psc.xsede.org

Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '128.182.112.126'
to username@data.psc.xsede.org's password:
Connected to data.psc.xsede.org.

ls

TIL11_FULL

cd TIL11_FULL/ exit

Transferring files

Use rsync to sync the directories that you need to keep in sync.

rsync -e 'ssh -c aes128-ctr' -avP source_dir username@data.psc.xsede.org:target_dir

You can retrieve the data anytime by reversing the rsync command.