Hi everyone, short update for people using the cluster. • Apptainer images: I have downloaded all singularity images for the current dev branch of nf-core/proteinfold to

/mnt/shared/singularity_cache

. This folder is now read and writeable by everyone, so please feel free to point your

$NXF_SINGULARITY_CACHEDIR

or

NXF_APPTAINER_CACHEDIR

to this folder when running Nextflow to not duplicate storing images on the shared mount drive. • Proteinfold databases: I have downloaded the databases as outlined by @Jose Espinosa-Carrasco here https://nfcore.slack.com/archives/C0351A8S487/p1742833716034739?thread_ts=1742829598.383199&cid=C0351A8S487 @Keiran Rowell, I know you had started this but ran into problems with apptainer. Submitting the pipelines to the slurm cluster solved this and I have stored the resulting databases in

/mnt/shared/proteinfold_dbs/

. The only one I didn't overwrite is alphafold, because I wasn't sure if your existing folder was functional or truncated.

Many thanks Florian! Sorry for not getting on top of it last night, debugging when I should have gone straight to a worker 😅 The BFD alphafold db download from Google's mirror was incomplete - somehow my

screen

session died. Thank you for sorting this out!

@Keiran Rowell Any success with using GPUs and the references we downloaded?

Hello! I've been downloading the

-dev

versions of the image, but getting timeouts so I've set up the singularity conf and will try again. To be honest the UNSW team has been working on an existing cluster, but Quentin from a different institution has been able to contribute by working o Hackathon cluster. We haven't done intensive GPU runs yet