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Training Materials
Current offerings
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 .
Past 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in mind that some of the information about available computing resources and cluster access may be very old and even outdated.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 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| GPU Computing on the FASRC cluster (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 cluster (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- Basic Guide to FAS HPC Resources (very outdated)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 Harvard. 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
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