Introduction to Bianca: Handling Sensitive Research Data

Overview and schedule

Are you just beginning to work with sensitive data in your research? If yes, welcome to a 1-day introduction to handling sensitive data on the UPPMAX cluster, Bianca. We will tell you about NAISS-SENS, how to login to Bianca, transfer files via wharf, basics of the SLURM workload manager and the module system.

This is a workshop is intended for beginner users of Bianca.

You do not need to be a member of a NAISS-SENS project in order to join the workshop. A SUPR course project will be available to all participants. The workshop will consist of both lectures and exercise sessions.

Prerequisites: none.

When: Wednesday, September 25, 2024.
Time: 09:00 - 12:00, and 13:00 - 16:00.
Where: online via Zoom. Connection details will be sent to registered participants.

Login help session: Friday, September 20, time: TBA.

Registration form (open)

Tentative schedule

• Introduction
• Intro to NAISS-Sens
• Login: Thinlinc
• Command line intro specific to Bianca
• Module system
• Intro to transfering files to and from Bianca
• Compute nodes and slurm
• Summary
• Q/A

Course material

Other information

Please contact Diana Iusan if you have questions about the UPPMAX courses and workshops.