Computing/BioMicro Center

Intro

The BioMicro Center’s computing mission is to support a core set of bioinformatics applications and also to provide advanced computational, data storage, data security and data backup services. From BioMicro Center home page.

Accounts

DNA-NET domain accounts give users access to storage on centrally managed fileservers. Data stored on these servers can be access from multiple operating systems. To get a DNA-NET account, send email to biosupport@mit.edu with subject "new user" and the following information:

• First/last name
• Athena username
• Lab PI
• Department
• Room number/address
• Phone number

You can check the status of your request at the BioMicro Support Center You will receive a confirmation email when your account is created.

You must login for the first time using a Windows machine. Your username is your Athena username and your temporary password is your username. Your password must be changed on first login to a different password. This should be your Athena password, for uniformity.

Access

In Windows

Drive X: is mapped to your home directory at \\Dnanet\Bionet\endy\homedirs\username

You may want to map drive Z: to \\Dna-net\Bionet\endy to get easy access to the top level of the file share hierarchy.

In OS X

Press Cmd+K in Finder to connect to server. Then type in: cifs:\\bionet\endy.

In Linux

Create a mount point:

# mkdir /mnt/bionet

Add the following line into /etc/fstab:

bionet:/vol/vol0/endy   /mnt/bionet     nfs     rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr 0 0

Mount the file share:

# mount /mnt/bionet