Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest features both new documentation and exciting announcements.
NEW DOCS 🎉
- New Get Started section, which includes:
ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢
🏆 Harmony Awarded Through NSF Grant!
The Unity team received an NSF grant to add a new system to the Unity Research Computing Platform, called Harmony. Harmony is designed to efficiently serve large numbers of researchers and students, expand equitable computing access, and support the demand for computing resources in educational settings. Featuring high core-count ARM architecture CPUs and NVIDIA A16 and L4 GPUs, Harmony is equipped for cost-effective and power-efficient computing.
Stay tuned for an updated announcement on our anticipated development and release timeline!
🧬 AlphaFold3 – Google DeepMind’s New Protein Structure Prediction Software Iteration – Now Available on Unity!
Access AlphaFold3 with the command module load alphafold3/latest. The databases are available at /datasets/bio/alphafold3.
Each user needs to obtain the model parameters from this website by filling out the form mentioned. After receiving the model parameters and downloading them to Unity, you can provide the path to the —model_dir parameter, as shown in the example below.
Example usage:
module load alphafold3/latest
run_alphafold.py \
--json_path=</path/to/input.json> \
--model_dir=</path/to/model_params> \
--output_dir=</path/to/output_directory>
We are looking into making the parameters available cluster-wide. Stay tuned for an updated announcement regarding this.
❄️ Winter Break Reduced Help Hours: 12/23/24 to 1/5/25
The Unity facilitation and systems administration teams will have reduced services and help hours from December 23, 2024, until January 5, 2025.
📥 Unity Software Request Form Reminder
We are working on a significant overhaul for our Ubuntu 24.04 module collection. If you notice your software is missing, please fill out our software request form.