Atmosphere
Atmosphere provides easy to use web access to cloud resources and is designed to accommodate computationally and data-intense bioinformatics tasks.
Atmosphere, CyVerse's cloud-computing platform, allows you to launch your own isolated virtual machine (VM) image and software, using compute resources such as CyVerse-provided software suites, and preconfigured, frequently used analysis routines, relevant algorithms, and datasets. Before you can begin using Atmosphere, you must have a CyVerse account and be granted access to Atmosphere.
Key Features
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Access virtual machine images preconfigured with an operating system and software to help you do scientific computations in domain-specific tasks
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Find and use tools with the intuitive self-service portal
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Easily manage virtual machines
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Publish your own software suites, create your own work environments, and run the software for community use
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Access your data in the Data Store, including high-performance computing (HPC) and grid computing environments
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Integrate with existing infrastructure components using API services
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Easily generate and manage statistical reporting of user resources for total CPU hours and memory usages, total instances and applications launched by user, cloud monitoring, and on-demand intelligence resource allocation
Within Atmosphere, you launch an instance (a launched image of a virtual machine), selecting from the list of available images (a template of a virtual machine containing an installed operating system, software, and configuration). Though not required, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with Linux command-line, as some actions require some degree of knowledge of the command-line interface.
