Downloading humann from HPC cluster

Microbial community profiling HUMAnN
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Hi, I’m a Research Computing Consultant working with a user to download a desired db onto our cluster. The user was able to download the db to their personal machine and upload to our cluster, but both the user and everyone on our side is unable to download from our cluster. The command we’re running is:

(venv) [user@sh04-ln06 login /path/to/venv]$ humann_databases --download uniref uniref90_diamond data/uniref --update-config yes
Download URL: ``http://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/humann_data/uniprot/uniref_annotated/uniref90_annotated_v201901b_full.tar.gz

If I strace this pid, there appears to be no activity. I can provide IPs, etc. if necessary. Our admins think the cluster may be blacklisted.

Thanks!

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You’re sure it wasn’t a sporadic issue of the download not being available (e.g. maintenance window on our side)? If they’ve blacklisted harvard.edu that’s going to be tricky for us to work around… You can always download the databases elsewhere, sync them to your cluster, and then update the cluster config (by running humann_config) to point to them.