MAEMOD Research Workstation User Guide

Welcome to the MAEMOD Research Workstation User Guide.

This guide explains how MAEMOD/MORU team members can connect to and use the shared Linux workstation for research computing tasks.

The workstation is intended for:

• R analysis
• Python analysis
• Stan and CmdStan modelling
• long-running simulations
• shared project workflows
• reproducible scientific computing

1 Workstation summary

Item	Value
Hostname	mod-linux-ws01
Operating system	Ubuntu Linux
Scheduler	Slurm
CPUs	24
Shared software location	/data/software
Shared conda environments	/data/envs

2 How to use this guide

New users should start with:

1. Quick Start
2. Connecting to the Workstation
3. Basic Linux Commands
4. R Package Management
5. Using Slurm

Users who already know Linux can go directly to the R, Python, CmdStan, and Slurm sections.

3 Important rule

For long or computationally intensive work, please use Slurm instead of running jobs directly in the login terminal.