Question about analyzing data in high perforfmance computer.

Question

[tsomakiank]

Hello to everyone.

I am trying to figure out the means of analyzing ngs data. I am a masters student and my supervisor suggested me that if I would like to I can try analyzing some RNA-Seq data that the lab recently obtained. I have a basic laptop with intel i7, 8gb ram and a 256gb ssd. They told me that if I decide that I want to try analyzing the data they will give me access to the university server. Does that mean that I will exclusively use the server resources for the analysis and my laptop will be only the mediator or I still need a more powerful laptop for the analyses.

Thanks in advance!

[Ram]

Please use tags that make sense, not tumblr hashtags. Not every word is meant to be a tag on a professional forum. I've edited your tags to be more relevant to your question.

[tsomakiank]

Thanks for the update

[ATpoint]

What are you going to analyze?

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Does that mean that I will exclusively use the server resources for the analysis and my laptop will be only the mediator or I still need a more powerful laptop for the analyses.

If you can get access to a server then you are best served going that route. In that case your laptop will only be used to SSH to the central server and you can probably leverage a job scheduler and significantly better resources than your local laptop.