Working Directory

LOGIN TO THE HPC: Henry2

At NC State you need to be associated with a course or with a research PI to gain access to HPC. For BIT CPT, your instructor has added you to the course project workspace and your account is already activated. You must have completed the Henry2 Basic Bioinformatics training course before we begin here.

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Code to login

To login to HPC using a terminal you will need to use your unique NC State Unity ID to adapt the following command:

ssh YourUnityID@login.hpc.ncsu.edu

Once you have submitted this command, you will be prompted to enter your NCSU password. Do not be alarmed when you do not see any characters typed
This will set you in you home space (where you cannot do work because it has basically no storage space). You can confirm your location by using the command 'pwd' to print your working directory
- - You should get a response of /home/YourUnityID
Do not do any work in your home directory or on the head node. Only use our class directory and submit work as a job to the scheduler.

CHANGE DIRECTORY: SCRATCH SPACE

Change your directory

cd /share/bitcpt/Fall2022

Now that you are in our course project space you can set up your working directory where you will perform RNA sequence analysis!

List out what is in your current working directory

If you use the command to list ll or ls (all lower case letter L) you will see all our learning community working directories.
- ll is for list long
- ls is for list short
You should see UnityID directory has been made automatically.
If you do not see your UnityID as a subdirectory within the Fall2022 make this new directory now:

mkdir UnityID

Please change permissions on this directory so that your instructors can gain access