Supercomputing for Everyone Series

The Supercomputing for Everyone Series (SC4ES) aims to bring more users into the realm of advanced computing, whether it be visualization, computation, analytics, storage, or any related discipline. Research Technologies can take you to the next level of computing. Some of the workshops are available as courses available 24/7 on-demand via Expand.

Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 events:

Intro to HPC | 9/15/2022 and 2/2/2023 | 2-4:30pm

Research Cyberinfrastructure Day | 9/28/2022 | 11am-3pm

Intro to Sketchfab | 10/19/2022 | Noon-1pm

Big Red 200 and AI Day | 10/20/2022 | 10am-5pm | IUB-CIB

Storage Options and Data Management Practices | 10/27/2022 and 1/12/2023 | 2-4pm

Intro to Deep Learning on Big Red 200 | 11/3/2022 and 3/30/2023 | 2-4pm

Getting Started with IU REDCap | 12/1/2022 and 3/2/2023 | 2-4pm

Surveys in IU REDCap | 12/15/2022 and 3/23/2023 | 2-4pm

Using the e-Consent in IU REDCap | 1/26/2023 | 2-4pm

High Performance Computing for Biologists | 2/16/2023 | 2-4pm

Parallel Programming for Data Science | 4/6/2023 | 2-4:30pm

Data Quality and Data Management in IU REDCap | 4/20/2023 2-4pm

Quantum Computing | 4/27/2023 | 1-5pm (registration will be available in 2023)

Save the Date! IU REDCap Day | May 2023 (exact date to be determined)

Available training in the Supercomputing for Everyone Series includes:

Augmented, Virtual, and Extended Reality Seminar Series

This informational series highlights some of the services UITS has to offer, from 3D object acquisition to virtual reality for education and research. *View the archived presentations via YouTube.

Carbonate Supercomputer

This online course helps users become familiar with IU's supercomputers; from storage and security best practices to job execution. It is commensurate with the in-person Intro to HPC workshop. *This course is available online 24/7 via Expand.*

High Performance Computing for Biologists

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.* Register for the 02/16/2023 workshop.*

HPC Onboarding for Biologists

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) provides this high performance computing (HPC) workshop to help new users learn about HPC resources available to them, other course offerings, and NCGAS services. *View the archive of May 2020 workshop. *The online version of this course is available online 24/7 via Expand.*

Impact of Virtual Reality

The UITS Research Technologies Advanced Visualization Lab presented a seminar series on how the medium of virtual reality has proven to be useful in fields ranging from education and learning to training, science, design and evaluation. *View the archived presentations via YouTube.

Intro to Deep Learning on Big Red 200 supercomputer

This online course helps attendees create their first NeuralNet, RandomForest and function optimizer with the DeepLearning software stack on Big Red 200. *View the course content online via GitHub and archive of course presentation via YouTube.* Register for 11/03/2022 or 03/30/2023 workshop.*

Intro to High Performance Computing (HPC)

This workshop introduces IU faculty, staff, and students to high performance computing. Commensurate with the online Carbonate course. *View the course content online via GitHub and Google or archive of course presentations via YouTube.* Register for 9/15/22 or 2/2/23 workshop.*

Intro to R for Biologists

In this National Center for Genome Analysis Support workshop/course, learn about the Bioconductor Project and the basics of RStudio—data types, classes, objects, and more—and how to write and use a function. *Download the course materials (pdf or zip) and view the workshop presentations via YouTube. *The online version of this course is available online 24/7 via Expand.*

IU REDCap

IU's Research Electronic Data Capture (IU REDCap) is a self-managed, secure, web-based platform designed to support data collection and data management for research, operations support, and quality improvement projects. REDCap's easy-to-use, intuitive features allow users to rapidly build and manage secure online surveys and databases.* Extensive archive of training available.* Register for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 workshops.*

Jetstream Overview: A national research and education cloud

This workshop introduces IU researchers to Jetstream, a cloud resource supporting education and research. *Virtual workshop available online.*

Metagenomics Analysis

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support offered this workshop on HPC resources and assembly/annotation of metagenomic datasets. *View the course content online via GitHub including the PowerPoint presentations.*

Mining Sequence Read Archive (SRA)

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support offered this workshop to help researchers use SRA to run their bioinformatics workflows efficiently using computational resources available through NCGAS/XSEDE. *View the course content online via GitHub including the PowerPoint presentations.*

National Center for Genome Analysis Support

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) offers training and outreach online and in-person at Indiana University (IUB and IUPUI) and at national/international conferences. Let NCGAS help you become more efficient in genome analysis via supercomputers and software designed specifically for your field of research/study.

NCGAS Genomics Research webinar series

This monthly scientific series highlights the research of scientists who use computational resources provided by the National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS). *Archive of webinars available via YouTube.*

Parallel Programming for Data Science (Matlab, R, Python)

This workshop introduces strategies to utilize multiple processors to solve research problems using Matlab, R, and Python.

Parallel Programming for Modeling and Simulation (C, C++, Fortran)

This workshop presents an introduction to using threads and message passing in traditional languages on IU's supercomputers.

Research Desktop (RED)

This online course helps users learn to use the graphical interface, RED, to access IU's supercomputers. Learn storage options, security, the RED desktop features, and practical experiences. *This course is available 24/7 online via Expand.*

Research Programming with GPUs

Information and training on this page will help users at IU who are using or considering using GPUs to accelerate their research.

Scientific Visualization Series

This series highlights a variety of topics related to scientific visualization. Principles of perception, along with techniques and tools for creating visualizations from scientific datasets is discussed. *View the archived presentations via YouTube.*

Services for Digital Humanities and Creative Activities

These seminars introduce humanities and creative practitioners to IU services available to them. *View the archived presentations via YouTube.

Statistical and Numerical Software for HPC

Learn about SAS, R, and Matlab on HPC systems, including functions, submitting jobs, and setting environmental variables for performance boosts.

Storage for High Performance Computing

Learn the basics of using storage on IU’s supercomputing systems, including data lifecycles and types, moving data in and out of IU systems, and finish with hands-on experience.

Storage Options and Data Management Best Practices

This workshop introduces IU faculty, staff, and students to high performance storage options including Slate, Geode, and Scholarly Data Archive.* Register for 10/27/2022 or 01/12/2023 workshop.*

Transcriptome Assembly, Annotation, and Analysis

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) offers this workshop on HPC usage and de novo transcriptome assembly. *View past course content online via GitHub or course presentations via YouTube.*

Unix: The Basics

Use this online course to go from little to no experience to being functional with UNIX/LINUX in a supercomputing environment. *This course is available online 24/7 via Expand.*

Workshops are offered online and at the IU Bloomington and IUPUI campuses.

Supercomputing for Everyone Series workshops and seminars are led by personnel from Research Technologies, a division of University Information Technology Services and a center in the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.

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