3  System and Environment

3.1 Machine Specification

The data we curate is over 300 gigabytes large. Therefore we used the SCI institute’s in-house machine ‘atlantis’ for data staging and processing. See Table 3.1.

Table 3.1: ‘atlantis’ System Specifications
Property Value
Architecture x86_64
CPU op-mode(s) 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order Little Endian
Address sizes 44 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s) 48
On-line CPU(s) list 0-47
Thread(s) per core 2
Core(s) per socket 6
Socket(s) 4

3.2 Environment

We aim to work in an environment that can be most easily reproduced and documented. Therefore we used Python 3.9.19 via conda. We did all our work within the Project Jupyter environment.

To find our the yml file containing our exported conda environment please see the sidebar.

To work on the ‘atlantis’ machine, we used SSH to connect to the machine.

In the proceeding chapters we will specify which tools and libraries were used and why.