MEG Biowulf Setup

General Setup

Mounting local computer to biowulf

 https://hpc.nih.gov/docs/hpcdrive.html

Configuring your bash shell environment

If editing your bashrc -- open two terminals in biowulf. If you misconfigure your .bashrc, you might not be able to log into biowulf. Having two terminals open allows you to fix anything that errors out.

Edit .bashrc file in your home drive

Aliases allow you to configure commands for easy use.
If you have a data directory that you use, you may want to add cddat="cd /data/MYDATADIR/blah/blah/data"

 umask 002   #Gives automatic group permissions to every file you create -- very very helpful for working with your team
 
 #Add modules bin path to access the MEG modules
 PATH=/data/MEGmodules/bin:$PATH
 
 ## Set up some aliases, so you don't have to type these out
 alias sinteractive_small='sinteractive --mem=8G --cpus-per-task=4 --gres=lscratch:30'
 alias sinteractive_medium='sinteractive --mem=16G --cpus-per-task=12 --gres=lscratch:100'
 alias sinteractive_large='sinteractive --mem=24G --cpus-per-task=32 --gres=lscratch:150'

To Access Additional MEG modules

 #Add the following line to your ${HOME}/.bashrc
 module use --append /data/MEGmodules/modulefiles

Setting up spyder on biowulf

 module purge
 module load python/3.10
 spyder

Click on the wrench icon

Add the following line to Use the following interpreter: /vf/users/MEGmodules/modules/mne1.5.1dev/bin/python3.11