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Training Materials
See our Training page for recent training sessions and materials.
For current information on how to access the cluster, please refer to our FAQ page or our Documentation .
Getting started trainings
| Getting started on the FASRC clusters – Introduction | Slides | Video | ||
| Getting started on the FASRC clusters with Open OnDemand | Slides | Video | ||
| Getting started on the FASRC clusters with CLI (Command Line Interface) | Slides | Video (pending) | ||
Advanced trainings
Materials from past workshops can be found below. Please bear in mind that some of the information about available computing resources and cluster access may be very old and even outdated.
| Fall 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Python Multiprocessing on the FASRC Clusters (Dec 6) | Slides | No Video | Notes/Commands |
| Python Basics on the FASRC Clusters (Dec 5) | Slides | Video (pending) | Notes/Commands |
| Advanced Cluster Usage (Nov 15) | Slides | Video | |
| Research Data Management (Oct 31) | Slides | Video | |
| VSCode on FASRC clusters (Oct 18) | Slides | Video (pending) | |
| Using Singularity Containers on the FASRC clusters (Oct 11) | Slides | Video (pending) | |
| Installing and using software on FASRC clusters (Oct 3) | Slides | Video | |
| Summer 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Managing Research Data at FASRC (Aug 20) | Slides | Video |
| Parallel Job Workflows (July 16) | Slides | Video |
| Python and Multiprocessing (Jun 18) | Slides | |
| Spring 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Cluster Usage (Mar 19) | Slides | |
| GPU computing on the FASRC clusters (Feb 20) | Slides | |
| Installing and Using Software on FASRC cluster (Jan 23) | Slides | |
| Fall 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Using Singularity Containers on the Cluster (Nov 21) | Slides | |
| Parallel job workflows using OpenMP and MPI | Slides | |
| Getting started on the FASRC clusters with Open OnDemand (Oct 19) |
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| Getting started on the FASRC clusters with command line interface (Oct 17) |
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| FASRC new users training (Oct 10) | Slides | |
| GPU computing on the FASRC clusters (Sep 26) | Slides | |
| Getting started on the FASRC clusters with command line interface (Sep 21) |
Slides | Video |
| Getting started on the FASRC clusters with Open OnDemand (Sep 19) |
Slides | Video |
| FASRC new users training (Sep 12) | Slides | Video |
| Summer 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| FASRC new users training (Aug 15) | Slides | |
| Advanced cluster usage (Aug 8) | Slides | Video |
| Installing and using software on FASRC clusters (July 11) | Slides | Video |
Additional past trainings
- Intro to High Performance Computing and Open OnDemand slides
- Parallel Computing: Parallel Computing using OpenMP slides
- Next Steps: Running Biology Workflows on Odyssey slides
- Parallel Computing: Introduction to Parallel Computing slides
- Next Steps: Troubleshooting Jobs on Odyssey slides
- Basic Guide to Unix and Command Line Interface
- Introduction to Odyssey v2 (somewhat out-dated)
- Introduction to Odyssey and RC Services v1 (deprecated)
- Performing parameter sweeps on Odyssey (slides, codes)
- Unix tricks & text processing (talk PDF, long version)
- Running ImageJ macros and jobs on Odyssey (github repo)
- IPython notebooks on Odyssey (slides, screencast)
- Installing Python/Perl Modules and R Packages (slides)
- Troubleshooting Jobs on Odyssey (slides handout)
- MATLAB Workshop: Nov ’14 presentation/demo files
- RC Software Carpentry Workshop: Nov ’14 materials
- Introduction to Python
- Basic Guide to FAS HPC Resources (very outdated)
- Parallel Programming with MPI – Presentation 1, Example Code
- Parallel Programming with MPI – Presentation 2, Example Code
- ATLAS Distributed Computing
- Introduction to Perl and Bioperl
- Scientific Computing with Python
- Biology Research on the Odyssey Cluster
- Next Generation Sequencing and Microarray analysis
- Writing MPI Programs for Odyssey
- R
- MATLAB
- Mathematica
External Resources
Below is a list of high performance computing resources from outside FASRC. If you know of other resources that might be helpful to the Research Computing community:
- MATLAB Demos MATLAB demonstrations and examples from MathWorks
- High Performance Computing with CUDA CUDA tutorial by NVIDIA
- GPU Computing Webinars Webinars by NVIDIA
- LLNL HPC Training Workshops and training resources offered by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- SDSC HPC Training Workshops and training resources offered by the San Diego Supercomputer Center
- NERSC Training Materials Classes, workshops, and training materials offered by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- TACC Training Materials Classes, workshops, and training materials offered by the Texas Advanced Computing Center
- OU Training Materials Classes, workshops, and training materials offered by the University of Oklahoma
- Rutgers University Training Video tutorials on how to use MATLAB
- Yale HPC training
- Python for Geospatial Big Data and Data Science Using the FASRC September 2023 Workshop by Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis
