Training
Training Sessions
The GACRC regularly hosts training sessions on a number of subjects relevant to the use of our computational and storage resources. Scheduled trainings will be announced through the GACRC mailing list.
NOTE: New users are required to attend an introductory training session and information about that will be sent once an account is requested.
Event Announcement
Dear GACRC user,
The GACRC is going to host seven training workshops in this September 2015 at Life Sciences Building, room C128. The seven workshops will provide an introduction to the GACRC Linux high performance computing (HPC) clusters, GACRC storage environment, and the Linux basics.
Who Should Attend:
New HPC cluster and zcluster users, or researchers who are interested in learning about the GACRC computing resources and Linux basics (Linux OS, Concepts of Linux command, shell, and filesystem, Common Linux commands, etc.).
Details:
Title: Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC
Date: September 4th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Title: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC
Date: September 11th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Title: Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC
Date: September 14th, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Title: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC
Date: September 18th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Title: Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I
Date: September 21st, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Title: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC
Date: September 25th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Title: Introduction to GACRC Storage Environment
Date: September 28th, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
If you would like to attend, please respond by email to: zhuofei@uga.edu. Also please tell us which session you want to attend.
We have 25 seats in the lab room, so we have a 25 user/workshop limit. Please respond at your earliest convenience to register to guarantee your seat. You are welcome and encouraged to attend those workshops to learn about how to work with the HPC clusters at the GACRC.
The GACRC is going to host other training workshops and seminars covering various HPC topics, including Linux shell and shell scripting (Linux Basics, Part II), scientific programming languages, etc., in the near future. We will announce those events when they are scheduled.
The GACRC Web Training page can be found at http://gacrc.uga.edu/help/training/ and the GACRC Wiki Training page can be found at https://wiki.gacrc.uga.edu/wiki/Training, from which you can find detailed information about upcoming and past training sessions from GACRC and download training materials.
Sincerely,
GACRC Staff
Dear GACRC user,
The GACRC is going to host eight training workshops in this October 2015 at Life Sciences Building, room C128. The eight workshops will provide an introduction to the GACRC Linux high performance computing (HPC) clusters, GACRC storage environment, and the Linux basics.
Who Should Attend:
New HPC cluster and zcluster users, or researchers who are interested in learning about the GACRC computing resources and Linux basics (Linux OS, Linux shell and shell scripting. etc.).
Details:
Title: Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC
Date: October 2nd, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
What's zcluster at GACRC
zcluster current computing resources
zcluster software environment
How to work with zcluster, e.g., how to run interactive jobs; how to run batch jobs and request computing resources; how to make job submission scripts; how to check job status, etc.
Title: Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I
Date: October 5th, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
Linux OS and brief history
Linux command, filesystem, and shell
Linux common commands, etc.
Title: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC
Date: October 9th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
What's the new cluster at GACRC
New cluster's current computing resources
New cluster software environment
How to operate with the new cluster
How to work with the new cluster, e.g., how to run interactive jobs; how to run batch jobs; how to make job submission scripts and request computing resources; how to check job status, etc.
Title: Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC
Date: October 12th, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus
What's zcluster at GACRC
zcluster current computing resources
zcluster software environment
How to work with zcluster, e.g., how to run interactive jobs; how to run batch jobs and request computing resources; how to make job submission scripts; how to check job status, etc.
Title: Introduction to GACRC Storage Environment
Date: October 16th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
Overview of Linux common commands related to file and folder operations
Overview of the storage enviornment of zcluster and the new cluster at GACRC
How to transfer data between local and GACRC storage
New file transfer node xfer2 and how to use it to transfer data between zcluster and the new cluster
GACRC suggestions on good practices on GACRC storage, etc;
Title: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC
Date: October 19th, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
What's the new cluster at GACRC
New cluster's current computing resources
New cluster software environment
How to operate with the new cluster
How to work with the new cluster, e.g., how to run interactive jobs; how to run batch jobs; how to make job submission scripts and request computing resources; how to check job status, etc.
Title: Introduction to Linux Basics Part-II (Basic Linux knowledge required)
Date: October 23th, 2015, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
Linux shell
Common practices on Linux shell scripting
Common Linux utilities, e.g., sort, find, grep, awk, and sed etc.
Title: Introduction to Batch Process Jobs on Linux (Basic Linux knowledge required)
Date: October 26th, 2015, Monday
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Life Sciences Building, room C128
Focus:
How to use Bachsub scripts to populate a template submission scripts to a set of submission scripts based on the files in data directory. Originally this method is used to process multiple samples/libraries to run in trinity, tophat/cufflink pipeline
If you would like to attend, please respond by email to: zhuofei@uga.edu. Also please tell us which session you want to attend.
We have 25 seats in the lab room, so we have a 25 user/workshop limit. Please respond at your earliest convenience to register to guarantee your seat. You are welcome and encouraged to attend those workshops to learn about how to work with the HPC clusters at the GACRC.
The GACRC is going to host other training workshops and seminars covering various HPC topics, including HPC introduction, Linux working environment (Linux Basics, Part III), scientific programming languages, etc., in the near future. We will announce those events when they are scheduled.
The GACRC Web Training page can be found at http://gacrc.uga.edu/help/training/ and the GACRC Wiki Training page can be found at https://wiki.gacrc.uga.edu/wiki/Training, from which you can find detailed information about upcoming and past training sessions from GACRC and download training materials.
Sincerely,
GACRC Staff
Upcoming Sessions
The GACRC is going to host five training workshops in this August at Life Sciences Building, room C128. The workshops will provide an introduction to the Linux basics and GACRC Linux high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
| Presentation Date/Time | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 25th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| September 28th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to GACRC Storage Environment |
| October 2nd, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| October 5th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I |
| October 9th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| October 12th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| October 16th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to GACRC Storage Environment |
| October 19th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| October 23rd, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to Linux Basics Part-II (Basic Linux knowledge required) |
| October 26th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to Batch Process Jobs on Linux (Basic Linux knowledge required) |
Past Sessions
| Presentation Date/Time | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 21st, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I |
| September 18th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| September 14th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| September 11th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| September 4th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| August 28th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| August 24th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| August 17th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I |
| August 14th, 2015, Friday, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| August 10th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| July 27th, 2015, Monday, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| July 27th, 2015, Monday, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
| July 20th, 2015, Monday, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I |
| June 22nd, 2015, Monday, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC |
| June 15th, 2015, Monday, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Davison Life Sciences Complex C128 | Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC |
Presentation Slides Download
GACRC Computing Resources
| Workshop PDF |
|---|
| media: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC Workshop20150922 v5.pdf |
| media: Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC Workshop20150922 v3.pdf |
Linux Basics
| Workshop PDF |
|---|
| media: Introduction to Linux Basics Part-I Workshop20150915 v2.pdf |
Out-Reach Training
| Dept./Center/Institute | Date | Workshop PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Center for Simulational Physics | 2015-09-15 | media: Introduction to HPC Using the New Cluster at GACRC Workshop CSP20150915.pdf |
On-Class Training
| Course ID | Course Title | Workshop PDF |
|---|---|---|
| STAT8060 | Computing Techniques in Statistics I | media: Introduction to HPC Using zcluster at GACRC Workshop20150826-STAT8060.pdf |
NOTE: The slides may become outdated and you should always check GACRC Wiki for up to date information.