Handling sensitive data at NAISS¶

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• Time: 9:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 16:00
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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 NAISS sensitive data HPC cluster called Bianca.

You will learn how to use Bianca: you will login to Bianca, up/download files, load pre-installed software of your favorite version, submit jobs and how to use a programming environment such as RStudio or Jupyter.

Prerequisites¶

• Basic Linux. This is taught earlier in this NAISS Intro week and called Linux Command Line 101

Topics¶

• an overview of kinds of sensitive data
• how to login
• how the sensitive system is set up
• how you transfer your data in/out from the sensitive systems
• how you get access to the software you need at this system
• how you use the job scheduler to run on the compute nodes
• (how to start IDEs)