NORMENT setup a project on Educloud infrastructure:

  * Project identifier: ec42
  * Project name:       Big data applications in psychiatric genetics and neuroimaging
  * Registration link:  https://research.educloud.no/register  
  * Login:              https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/platforms/edu-research/help/install-vmware.html
  * Web access:         http://view.educloud.no
  * VMWare horizon:     view.educloud.no
  * FOX documentation:  https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/platforms/edu-research/help/fox/index.md

 


**Educloud:
**
Educloud Research is a UiO provided service for any research project that:
  * Needs collaborations with users across institutions and borders
  * Needs access to Windows (Server 2019) and/or Linux virtual desktops  (RHEL v8)
  * Needs access to the Fox HPC system that has SLURM controlled nodes (CPU and GPU) and interactive (first come, first serve) nodes.
  * Needs access to high quality, high performance storage
  * Storage is “project oriented”, meaning that all project members see all project storage from their project work-surface (windows/linux/HPC)
  * All regular file storage is presented using SMB3, NFSv4 and GPFS to windows, linux and HPC respectively (using Kerberos go ensure confidentiality between projects)
  * Object storage is provided by the UiO Cloudian system
  * Linux software will be available and similar using the “module load” system on Linux VMs and the HPC system Fox.

More about Educloud - https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/platforms/edu-research/

To apply for an user account on Educloud, please use  [[research.educloud.no/register]] to apply for our project 'Big data applications in psychiatric genetics and neuroimaging' (code: ec42) 

Let us know your feedback on using educloud and potential use cases - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bUYORbRqsYbvZUjm6LBbV-e-VYSSgdw0-LJp5XLJfXE/edit  The project would be administered by Norment admins and you can write to ec-drift@uio.no for IT support and queries. 


==== FOX ====

For storage you create your folder here:

<code>
/cluster/work/projects/ec42/users/<user>
</code>

==== Python3 on EduCloud ====

You may use modules from FOX login node. To create new python environment:

  1. module load Python/3.9.6-GCCcore-11.2.0
  2. python3 -m venv /cluster/work/projects/ec42/users/<user>/py3
  3. pip install (modules)

Then to use this envrionemnt from a new shell

  1. module load Python/3.9.6-GCCcore-11.2.0
  2. source /cluster/work/projects/ec42/users/<user>/py3/bin/activate 
  
 Alternatively to all of the above, use your custom installation of miniconda:

  1. wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
  2. bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
  3. (specify that you want it to be installed to /cluster/work/projects/ec42/users/<user>/miniconda3 )
  4. source /cluster/work/projects/ec42/users/<user>/miniconda3/bin/activate