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Events

  • [RCAC Sponsored Workshop] Fundamentals of Deep Learning

    • Online

    Nvidia Deep Learning Institute has partnered with Purdue Research Computing to offer free virtual student workshops to provide hands-on experience in the areas of deep learning, accelerated computing, and accelerated data science. Students with a val...

  • [RCAC Workshop] Containers 101

    • Online via MS Teams

    Outline - What are containers and why should we use them? Docker and Singularity Singularity basics Using containers on our clusters Deployed containers on RCAC clusters

  • Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) conference

    Purdue’s Envision Center will host the sixth annual Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) conference on Nov. 1-4, 2021. Presentations are currently being solicited and those interested in submitting proposals should complete the form by S...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Getting started with Jupyter

    Overview A beginner level discussion about what Jupyter is and how to use it. Jupyter lets you work in almost any language, not just Python. Prerequisites: None Outline What is Jupyter? How to start using Jupyter notebooks. How to use JupyterHub. Be...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Managing Python Packages in HPC clusters

    • MSTeams

    Outline OS Python and how things work on "your" system Why is it difficult to install Python packages on HPC clusters? Various package installation modes: Conda vs. Pip Using Conda environments Installing custom Python packages...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Using GPUs with Python presented by NVIDIA

    • Online

    Kristopher Keipert from NVIDIA will lead our workshop on Using GPUs with Python. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the training, this event will be limited to 40 people. Registration is required: Registration via EventBrite Python is the lead...

  • [RCAC Workshop Series] Globus Overview

    • MS Teams

    We will discuss the capabilities and common scenarios of using Globus with your research data: transferring data; sharing data with internal and external collaborators; publishing data; access control;

  • [RCAC Workshop Series] Overview of RCAC storage resources (Scratch, Data Depot, Fortress, Box)

    • MS Teams

    We will discuss: -Ideas on storage organization (what and where) -Data migrations, transfers, and workflows (SCP/SFTP/Network drive/Globus) -Sharing and collaboration

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Clusters 201

    • MS TEAMS

    We will discuss: Submission Files Job Monitoring Interactive Jobs

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Clusters 101

    • MS Teams

    We will discuss: Cluster Terminology Types of work Good Citizenship

  • Introduction to Data Science presented by Nvidia

    Description: You have this set of data, what do you do with it? Is there any hidden information in there and how do you get to it? This interactive workshop takes the first steps of data analysis by processing your data set to understand the overall...

  • Basic Bash Scripting

    Join RCAC staff as we cover the basics of bash scripting. During this workshop, we will discuss: bash script shell types variables and variable operations conditions and loops

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] An Introduction to Anvil

    • Online

    Please join us on March 12, 2021 at 2pm (Eastern Time) for a webinar introducing Anvil, the upcoming NSF funded capacity resource at Purdue University. Anvil will provide an advanced computing and data platform to support a wide range of computationa...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Using GPUs with Python presented by NVIDIA

    • MS Teams Live Event

    Kristopher Keipert from NVIDIA will lead our workshop on Using GPUs with Python. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the training, this event will be limited to 40 people. Registration is required: Registration via EventBrite Python is the lea...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] UNIX101

    • Online

    Join RCAC staff as we cover the basics of UNIX. This semester we will be presenting our workshops via Microsoft Teams Live Events this semester. During this workshop, we will discuss: Introducing the Shell Navigating Files and Directories Working W...

  • Big data research focus of free workshop Feb. 2-3

    • Online

    Purdue will host a free two-day big data workshop focusing on topics such as Hadoop and Spark on Tuesday, Feb. 2 and Wednesday, Feb. 3, for faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about tools for working with large sets of data. While simi...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Partner Forum - Controlling microwave superconducting elements for quantum computing and cosmology.

    • Online

    RCAC at Purdue is proud to host guest speaker Gustavo Cancelo in our Friday Workshop Series. Abstract: Radio frequency superconducting elements are one of the most promising technologies for achieving quantum supremacy and for detecting the faintest...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Overview of the “Geddes Community Composable Platform”

    • Online

    New usage patterns of computing for research have emerged that rely on the availability of flexible, elastic, and highly specialized services that may not be well suited to traditional batch HPC. RCAC is working to enhance and evolve the research com...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Partner Forum - Envision Center

    • Online

    Please join us this Friday, October 30, 2020, as the Envision Center team discusses the center’s services, and highlights work being done in the areas of virtual labs, collaborative VR, and motion capture. The Envision Center is a service laboratory...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series ] Overview of Bell, the latest Purdue Supercomputing Cluster

    • Online

    We will discuss: An overall review of Bell Features of AMD 'Rome' processors Discussion on packages and software on Bell