IBM Aspera Quickstart

Compute Resources

• See the RIS Service Desk for additional assistance.

• User Agreement

Docker Usage

• The information contained on this page assumes that you have a knowledge base of using Docker to create images and push them to a repository for use. If you need to review that information, please see the links below.

• Docker and the RIS Compute Service

• Docker Basics: Building, Tagging, & Pushing A Custom Docker Image

Image Details

• Docker image hosted at ghcr.io/washu-it-ris/aspera-connect

• IBM Aspera Connect

Interactive Job

Environment Variables

• The Aspera SCP Password provided needs to be set as a variable.

export ASPERA_SCP_PASS="Replace With Provided Password"

• The directory where the provided ssh key is saved needs to be included.

  • E.g. The ssh key is saved in /storage1/fs1/${ALLOCATION_NAME}/Active/aspera_key

  export LSF_DOCKER_VOLUMES="/storage1/fs1/${ALLOCATION_NAME}/Active:/storage1/fs1/${ALLOCATION_NAME}/Active"
  

• A job should be submitted with the following information to create an interactive job.

bsub -q general-interactive -Is -a 'docker(ghcr.io/washu-it-ris/aspera-connect:ubuntu20)' /bin/bash

• Once the job is running, Aspera commands can be used. Like in the following.

ascp -i "/path/to/aspera_key/aspera_tokenauth_id_rsa" -Q -l 200m -k 1 test.file 'asp-dbgap@gap-submit.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:test'

Download Files

• The example is for a test file to make sure Aspera works. Replace 'asp-dbgap@gap-submit.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:test' with the file to be downloaded.

• It is recommended that files are transfered individually and to use scripting loops to download batches.

Docker Image

ghcr.io/washu-it-ris/aspera-connect:<tag>

Available Versions

Current Version:

• ghcr.io/washu-it-ris/aspera-connect

  • ubuntu20