Minerva.md

Getting started with Minerva

1. Make Minverva account

2. Activate your account: sign HIPAA form, and email [email protected] for activation/confirmation

3. Get added to a private node & lab (e.g. ask Matt Heflin or your own lab manager for info)

4. Login to Minerva through terminal:

   > ssh [email protected]
   > 
   > Password: yourSinaiPassword123456 

where 123456 represents the 6 digit numeric sequence obtained from your VIP Symantec token

5. cd into your project dir (i.e. /sc/arion/projects/guLab/yourName/) if you don't have your own project folder navigate to your lab and mkdir yourName to make your own project dir, you can also mkdir EMU or any other folders you may need

6. move your data into your project dir

   > scp -r [email protected]:your/path/to/your/data sc/arion/projects/yourLab/yourName/EMU

where 123.456.789 represents your local IP address

7. move your LFPAnalysis into your main user space (i.e. /hpc/users/yourSinaiID/resources/LFPAnalysis)

8. to launch your jupyter notebook & run it with a sufficient amount of extra memory:

   > minerva-jupyter-module-web.sh -M 10000

9. follow this Sinai Minerva guide to make sure your python and dependencies are all pip installed

10. you may also use /sc/arion/work/yourName/ for any temp files/additional work space