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You can also get qiime to work, using the qsub command above to get interactive computing and use:
module add qiime
I haven't used it yet, but at least I loaded itIt's QIIME version 1.6 (I think) so it's got a few quirks that are different from the version 1.3 that was on beagle. You might need to change some variables names etc, but the QIIME documentation should be helpful for this. I still haven't been able to get anything working as a parallel job.
Space
So I was able to make my own directory in /data/ and /scratch/, but it didn't exist before I made it:
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I have been having trouble getting and interactive node using qsub for a few days. I'm not sure if it's a clogged cluster or a technical problemSeems like the cluster fills up occasionally making it difficult to get stuff done in a hurry.
Summary
In summary, this cluster might be good for a few specific tasks, but it's not good for long term storage, and it's geared towards the earth science crowd and modeling ocean circulation etc. It might have some functional capabilities that you could use (i.e. Matlab, QIIME), but be careful not to leave data on their scratch because it will be deleted.