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September 3, 2026
Introduction
Analyze data stored on the HPC cluster using Posit Workbench. Posit Workbench is an integrated development environment for R Statistical Computing as well as python.
To follow this guide you must already have an account on ERIS High Performance Computing.
Instructions
There are multiple options available, but connecting to Posit Workbench servers in your web-browser is recommended in most cases
Posit Workbench in a Web-Browser
- Connect to https://positwb.mgb.org/
- You will be prompted to enter your Mass General Brigham user ID (in lowercase) and password
- It is necessary to be connected directly to the Mass General Brigham computer network or on VPN.
- Most of packages are already installed to save disk space.
- But if you need to install packages
>install.packages("your_package_name") - When done working, please be considerate of other investigators and Quit Rstudio session if you will not be using the session again
- To close permanently choose "Quit RStudio..." from the RStudio "File" menu
- To disconnect in order to return later to the running session simply close the web page
Notes
- Since this is a shared resource, only one active session per user is allowed.
- Any idle sessions that are idle for 2 weeks or longer may be terminated without notification. Idle sessions are sessions which
- have not been connected to in 2 weeks
- are not using CPU cycles