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High-Performance Computing.
Training.
High-Speed Networking.

What is SCINet?

The SCINet initiative is an effort by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to grow USDA’s research capacity by providing scientists with access to high-performance computing clusters, high-speed networking for data transfer, and training in scientific computing.

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Upcoming Trainings and Events

  • Bioinformatics Foundations · Automating Bioinformatics Pipelines with Snakemake

    This hands-on workshop introduces Snakemake, a workflow management system that brings the readability of Python to scalable, reproducible computational pipelines. We will start with foundational examples and build to a real-world bioinformatics pipeline — learning how Snakemake’s rule-based, file-driven approach automatically determines job dependencies, handles parallel execution, and integrates seamlessly with Python scripts and virtual environments to produce publication-ready outputs.

  • SCINet Corner · Managing storage quotas on SCINet

    The SCINet Corner is a recurring virtual gathering to provide a space for people to meet and discuss SCINet-related items.

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