To gain access to iPlant, start by registering for iPlant here.
Here is a short summary about iPlant's resources:
- Atmosphere: a remote virtual machine environment that can be used to run bioinformatics software while avoiding having to install and configure the software. Each instance is accessed by a single individual, and each instance is intended to be temporary. That is, the user should shutdown the instance once a task is completed
- Discovery environment: It provides easy web access to an iRods partition and analysis applications (not used by our team yet).
- iRods space: a distributed data management system allows for quick movement of large data among institutions participating in iPlant and XSEDE.
For more information about iPlant, see iPlant's website.
Lorainelab has the following resources ready to use at iPlant:
- Up to a 16 core, 32GB main memory VM machine. This machine can be used to process sequence data. An instance can be created with Oases, Velvet and iAssembler already instaleed (alpha pending further testing).
- 1TB of iRods space: A distributed file system for use with throughput and high performance computing. Transfer time between Lorainelab and iPlant iRods server is measure to be 110Mbps.
- 50 GB EBS partition. This partition is persistent and specifically created to be used with an Atmosphere instance. In theory, one should be able to use only iRods partitions for storage. However, this other type of partition (non-distributed) is also available.
To use these resources, create an iPlant account, and let Jeremy (jfvillal@uncc.edu) know your iPlant user name to gain access to Lorainlab's resources at iPlant.