Events

[RCAC Workshop]GPU Programming for HPC (CUDA & OpenACC)

• November 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
• VIRTUAL

📅 Date: November 13, 2025 ⏰ Time: 1PM-2PM 💻 Location: VIRTUAL 🏫 Instructor: Jacob Verburgt Who Should Attend Students and researchers with basic programming experience who are interested in learning how to effectively leverage GPUs for scientific...

[RCAC Workshop]ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC

• November 3, 2025 11:00am - 5:00pm EST
• STEW B001

📅 Date: November 3rd, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11AM-5PM 💻 Location: STEW B001 🏫 Instructor: ACCESS ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC November 3, 2025 The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to present an OpenACC GPU programming works...

[RCAC Workshop] Intro to LangChain for LLM Apps

• October 24, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
• Virtual

📅 Date: October 24, 2025 ⏰ Time: 1PM-2PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Haniye Kashgarani Who Should Attend Researchers, analysts, engineers, and students with basic Python or data science experience who want to start building applications wit...

[RCAC Workshop] NVIDIA Deep Learning

• October 8, 2025 8:00am - 4:00pm EDT
• STEW 214 A/B

📅 Date: October 8th, 2025 ⏰ Time:8AM-4PM 💻 Location: STEW 214 A/B 🏫 Instructor: Mihir Ahlawat Who Should Attend Beginners in deep learning with basic Python knowledge who want to explore how AI is applied across industries such as healthcare, ret...

[RCAC workshop] A Biologist’s Guide to Computing on RCAC Systems

• October 16, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
• RAWL 2079

📅 Date: October 16, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM (ET) 💻 Location: RAWL 2079 [in-person] 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Anyone new to Purdue's high-performance computing systems or interested in exploring HPC for life-science res...

[RCAC Workshop] ML Fundamentals II: Unsupervised Learning

• October 3, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Who Should Attend Researchers, analysts, engineers, and students with basic programming or data science experience who want to expand their understanding of machine learning. This session is ideal for those working with real-world datasets who are in...

[RCAC Workshop] Evaluating LLMs: Benchmarks & Metrics

• November 7, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EST
• Virtual

📅 Date: November 7th 2025 ⏰ Time: 10AM-11AM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Erfan Fakhabi Who Should Attend This session is for practitioners, researchers, and students who are working with large language models and want to better understand ho...

[RCAC Workshop] Intro to NLP + Hugging Face Transformers

• October 17, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
• Virtual

📅 Date: October 17th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10AM-11AM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Erfan Fakhabi Who should attend: This session is designed for students, researchers, and developers who are curious about natural language processing and want to under...

[RCAC Workshop] Real-Time LLM Apps with Streamlit & Gradio

• October 31, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
• Virtual

📅 Date: October 31st, 2025 ⏰ Time: 1PM-2PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Ashish Who Should Attend Developers, ML engineers, researchers, and students who want to quickly prototype and deploy interactive applications powered by large language...

[RCAC Workshop] Shared Memory Parallelism - OpenMP

• October 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
• Virtual

📅 Date: October 17th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12pm-1pm 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Ibrahem Alshybani Who Should Attend postdocs, students, engineers Anyone new to shared-memory parallel programming. What You’ll Learn Fundamentals of OpenMP directives...

[RCAC Workshop] Intro to Performance Portability - Kokkos

• October 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
• Virtual

📅 Date: October 10th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12pm-1pm 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Ibrahem Alshybani Who Should Attend Posdocs, students, engineers Anyone interested in performance and portability across CPUs/GPUs. What You’ll Learn Why Kokkos matters...

[RCAC Workshop] Intro to PyTorch & TensorFlow

• October 10, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
• Virtual

📅 Date: October 10th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10am-11am EST 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Christina Joslin This session provides an introduction to two of the most widely used deep learning frameworks, PyTorch and TensorFlow. We will begin with a compar...

[RCAC Workshop] ML Fundamentals I: Supervised Learning

• September 26, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
• Online

📅 Date: Friday, September 26, 2025 ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM EDT 💻 Location: Online 🏫 Instructor: Haniye Kashgarani Who Should Attend Researchers, analysts, engineers, and students with basic programming or data science experience who want to build a solid...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: Year-end productivity toolkit (Session 12)

• December 9, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Anyone looking to wrap up the year with improved strategies fo...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: Documenting projects with RMarkdown (Session 11)

• December 2, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Researchers and students looking to improve the organization,...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: Debugging common HPC errors (Session 10)

• November 25, 2025 11:00am - December 31, 2025 11:59pm EST Last updated: November 17, 2025 2:16pm EST
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Researchers and students using RCAC systems who frequently en...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: Writing & submitting SLURM jobs (Session 9)

• November 18, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Computational researchers who need to run jobs on RCAC cluste...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: Installing programs with Apptainer/Singularity (Session 8)

• November 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Researchers working on RCAC systems who need to install or ru...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: Using Open OnDemand (OOD) (Session 7)

• November 4, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructors: Tomas Ratkus, Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Life science researchers and students intereste...

[RCAC Workshop] Genomics Essentials: GitHub for reproducible projects (Session 6)

• October 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
• Online [Microsoft Teams Meeting]

📅 Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: Online (Microsoft Teams link provided upon registration) 🏫 Instructor: Arun Seetharam Who Should Attend Computational biologists, students, and researchers interested...