From 0c00d9bc37807b98a1730d3aad06e6549c47446c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Casajus Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:35:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update introduction (debian version) --- chapters/introduction.qmd | 34 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapters/introduction.qmd b/chapters/introduction.qmd index 658bcb1..f438d45 100644 --- a/chapters/introduction.qmd +++ b/chapters/introduction.qmd @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ 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). @@ -45,32 +45,30 @@ that you can launch jobs whenever you want. However you are invited to read - [`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?** @@ -79,9 +77,13 @@ No! 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 @@ -95,4 +97,6 @@ shared among all users (except if you work with virtual environments **[recommen 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. :::