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Part 1 wrap up

TODO: Review learning objectives for the day:

  • Understand the basic compoenents of an HPC
  • Understand the importance of containerisation for portable and reproducible workflows
  • Know how to submit a job to an HPC and request compute resources
  • Understand how over-requesting resources hurts your overall run time (and your wallet)
  • Know how to benchmark and optimise your jobs for optimal run time and cost
  • Understand how Nextflow interacts with HPCs via the executor configurations
  • Know what nf-core is and how to find their pipelines
  • Know what nf-core/sarek is and how it is structured
  • Know how to configure nf-core to run on an HPC
  • Know how to fine-tune an nf-core pipeline to run efficiently with your data