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bioinformatics

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

High-Performance Computing Clusters

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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High-Performance Computing Clusters

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Posts and tutorials dealing with high-performance computing clusters, such as the Digital Research Alliance of Canada or the Canadian Federal Government supercomputers.

If you’re just getting started, basics for each system are covered in “Notes” for each system: Alliance Canada (formerly known as Compute Canada); GPSC (i.e., the Government of Canada General Purpose Scientific Computing cluster). I also mention some useful tools and approaches in an older article on making your own mini-cluster on DigitalOcean

A number of these articles describe how I use Emacs to manage my interactions with these systems. Emacs is a very powerful tool for writing and documenting scripts, and managing the process of submitting them to the cluster. However, the learning curve can be daunting. If you’re just going to be doing one or two small projects on a cluster, it is probably not worth the investiment to learn. On the other hand, if you will be doing this regularly, or you just like tinkering with computer stuff, it can be very rewarding. You can find my Emacs articles here.

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Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

tutorials

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

compute canada

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

byrne

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

multivariate

Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

news

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

reproducible research

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

sedges

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

fieldwork

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

genetics

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

gis

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

GRASS

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

linux

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

data visualization

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

graphics

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herbarium

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