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Usage

  • Load the beastx module in the terminal
  • Type "beast -h" to view usage

Interactive BEAST X and BEAUti use

See https://beast.community/beast and https://beast.community/beauti for general documentation on using BEAST X and BEAUti, respectively.

  • Start an OnDemand session (console or desktop)
  • Load the beastx module in the terminal
  • Type "beast" or "beauti" to launch the application

See GUI Programs for reference.

Beagle Use

  • Use -beagle_GPU beast command-line argument to invoke BEAST with GPU acceleration when running in a GPU Job
  • To use CPU acceleration with the beagle library, use the '-beagle_SSE -beagle_instances N' command line switches where 'N' equals to the number of requested Beagle library instances.
  • To limit the number of computing cores Beast will use for posterior computation to the number requested from the batch system use the '-threads N' where 'N' is the number of threads. Then, the job resource request should be equal to
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=X

where X = N + 1.