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The FRB-CESAB server **Rossinante** is dedicated to *medium* performance
scientific computing (see @tbl-hardware for hardware specification).
It runs under the Operating System (OS) **Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS** (Focal Fossa).
It runs under the Operating System (OS) **Debian 12** (Bookworm).


**When do you need to use Rossinante?**
**When do you want to use Rossinante?**

- You need to analyse large datasets (RAM operations), and/or,
- You need to analyse large datasets (RAM operations) and/or,
- You need to repeat tasks many times (parallelization on CPU/GPU).


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- [`R`](https://cran.r-project.org/) (latest version)
- [`RStudio Server`](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download-server/)
- [`Python`](https://www.python.org/) (latest version)
- [`pip3`](https://pip.pypa.io/) and [`Conda`](https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/) -- Python packages managers
- [`Jupyter Notebook`](https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/)
- [`Julia`](https://julialang.org/)
- [`LaTeX3`](https://www.latex-project.org/)
- [`Python 3`](https://www.python.org/) (latest version)
- [`pip3`](https://pip.pypa.io/) -- Python packages managers
- [`Pandoc`](https://pandoc.org/)
- [`Quarto`](https://quarto.org/)
- [`git`](https://git-scm.com/)
- [`make`](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)
- [`Docker`](https://www.docker.com/)


And some useful utilities:

- [`CUDA`](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) -- Deep Learning
- [`FFmpeg`](https://ffmpeg.org/) -- Transcoding multimedia files
- [`ImageMagick`](https://imagemagick.org) -- Image manipulation program
- [`Poppler`](https://poppler.freedesktop.org/) -- PDF utility library
- [`ExifTool`](https://exiftool.org/) - File metadata utility
- [`GDAL`](https://gdal.org/), [`GEOS`](https://trac.osgeo.org/geos), [`PROJ`](https://proj.org/) -- Spatial libraries
- [`htop`](https://htop.dev/) and [`btop`](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop) -- CPU, RAM, and processes monitoring tool
- [`nvtop`](https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop) -- NVIDIA GPU monitoring tool
- [`nano`](https://www.nano-editor.org/) and [`vim`](https://www.vim.org/) -- CLI text editors
- [`ctop`](https://github.com/bcicen/ctop) -- Docker containers monitoring tool
- [`nano`](https://www.nano-editor.org/), [`Vim`](https://www.vim.org/) and [`Neovim`](https://neovim.io/) -- CLI text editors
- [`screen`](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) and [`tmux`](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) -- Terminal multiplexers
- [`tree`](http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/) -- Recursive directory listing program
- [`curl`](https://curl.se/) and [`wget`](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html) -- Download managers
- [`zip`](https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-zip-files-and-directories-in-linux/) and [`unzip`](https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-unzip-files-in-linux/) -- ZIP files managers

- [`zsh`](https://www.zsh.org/) - Unix shell (alternative to Bash)

**Can you do everything you want on Rossinante?**

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Rossinante has only **one administrator**. Regular user,
like you, has limited permissions.

For instance, you have only access to a personal directory: `/home/you/`. If you ask
you can also have a personal space in one or more external drives
(e.g. `/media/cervantes/you`).
You have access to four personal directories:

- `/home/you/`
- `/media/sancho/you` (external drive)
- `/media/seagate/you` (external drive)
- `/media/cervantes/you` (external drive)


If you need to use a non-installed software, please contact the administrator.
Note that each user has a personal R library in which he/she can install every
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Rossinante is **not a storage server**. Its limited storage is shared
among all users. You can store large dataset to run yours
analyses, but once you've finished, please remove these files.

**There is no backup system!**. You are responsible for your data.
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