This workshop introduces IU Biology faculty, staff, and students to High Performance Computing (HPC) and the resources UITS Research Technologies (RT) makes available to them at IU to empower their research. This course follows on from the Introduction to HPC workshop and will cover the bioinformatics software available on IU’s supercomputing systems, the best ways to transfer, compute on, and store biological data, and how to efficiently utilize the systems.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the bioinformatics HPC resources and support services RT provides
- Find and/or install bioinformatics software on the systems
- Know where and how to transfer large datasets on and off the systems
- Get information from a job log
Prerequisite Skills
- Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Recommended but not required: S4ES: Unix the Basics
- For online courses, you will need your own computer with Internet access