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Software Title	Description
UAB Research Computing System (RCS)	A collaborative data and computing framework used at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Read more
Cheaha Supercomputer system	The primary high-performance computing resource at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Read more
UAB Research Cloud	The UAB software platform for cloud computing, deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service. Read more
Cheaha Account Management system	Account creation and management tool for researchers and collaborators at UAB. Read more
Duo Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)	A system that adds an extra layer of security by requiring two forms of authentication. Read more
VPN software	Software that provides a secure connection over a less secure network by encrypting data. Read more
SSH (Secure Shell)	A network protocol that provides a secure way to access remote systems and services. Read more
OpenSSH	A suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol. Read more
Open OnDemand (OOD)	A web-based platform for access to high performance computing services. Read more
Bash (UNIX Shell)	A Unix shell and command language used for scripting and command execution. Read more
Lmod (Environment Modules system)	A tool to easily manage the environment variables of different software packages in a Unix shell. Read more
SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management)	A job scheduler system that allocates resources, manages queues, and schedules jobs to run on the supercomputer. Read more
Git	A distributed version control system used to track changes in source code during software development. Read more
UAB GitLab	A GitLab instance hosted on secure servers for use by researchers and collaborators at UAB. Read more
Git Bash Terminal	A shell that provides a command-line interface to interact with Git on Windows. Read more
GitHub	A web-based hosting service for version control using Git. Read more
VSCode (Visual Studio Code)	A free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS with support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Read more
Globus	A software tool for managing data transfers between computers, storage systems, and cloud services. Read more
RClone	A command-line program used to sync files and directories to and from multiple cloud storage providers. Read more
FileZilla	A free, open-source FTP software used for transferring files over the Internet. Read more
Cyberduck GUI	An open-source client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage, available for Mac OS X and Windows. Read more
UAB Long-Term Storage (LTS)	A storage service offered by the University of Alabama at Birmingham for preserving research data. Read more
AWS S3 (Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service)	A scalable object storage service for storing and retrieving data in the cloud. Read more
S3 Browser	A freeware Windows client for Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. Read more
Docker	An open-source platform used for developing, shipping, and running applications in isolated environments called containers. Read more
Singularity	A container platform designed for use in high performance computing environments. Read more
UAB Kubernetes	An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Read more
Anaconda	An open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages, mainly aimed at scientific computing. Read more
Jupyter Notebooks	An open-source web application that allows the creation and sharing of documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. Read more
Mamba (Python package manager)	A fast, robust, and scalable package manager for Python, designed to handle large dependencies in complex environments. Read more
R (Programming Language)	A programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Read more
Matlab	A high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. Read more
NVIDIA Clara Parabricks	A computational genomics software suite optimized for NVIDIA GPUs. Read more
PyTorch	An open-source machine learning library for Python, used for applications such as natural language processing. Read more
TensorFlow	An end-to-end open-source platform for machine learning, developed by Google Brain Team. Read more
NVIDIA Drivers	Software modules that allow your operating system to effectively communicate with your NVIDIA graphics card. Read more
NVIDIA CUDA	A parallel computing platform and application programming interface model created by NVIDIA, allowing developers to use CUDA-enabled graphics processing units for general purpose processing. Read more
ServiceNow	Helpdesk software to allow users to create issues and connect with the Research Computing staff for assistance and guidance Read more

Common Shell Commands

Command	Description
du -sh	Use to check directory size.
cd	Use to change the working directory.
cp	Use to copy files and directories.
mv	Use to move or rename files and directories.
rm, rmdir	Use to delete files and directories.
curl	Use to download files and webpages from the internet.
mkdir	Use to create directories.
touch	Use to create files.
nano	Use to edit plain-text files.
wc	Use to count lines, words, and characters in a file.
cat, less	Use to display the contents of a file.
head, tail	Use to display the start or end of a file.
sort	Use to sort file contents.
echo	Use to test a command.
grep	Use to search for text within a file.
exit	Use to close the session.
clear	Use to clear the shell display.
which	Use to find the location of a command.
whatis, man	Use to learn about a command.
ssh	Use for remote shell access.
sftp	Use for remote file transfer.
chmod	Use to manage file and directory permissions.
chgrp	Use to change the group ownership of files and directories.
getfacl, setfacl	Use to manage researcher access to files and directories.
Git	Use as a version control system for software and document collaboration.