BioHPC Spring 2017 Training Sessions
BICF/BioHPC Courses
BICF/BioHPC training sessions will take place each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in seminar room NL06.215, unless otherwise noted below. Visit the BioHPC portal for a full listing of dates and presenters.
Spring 2017 Training Sessions
1/4/2017 |
Introduction to BioHPC |
New User Training |
1/11/2017 |
Using the SLURM Job Scheduler - Fundamentals of running computational jobs efficiently on the BioHPC cluster; Will cover serial and parallel jobs of various types |
General Computing Topics |
1/18/2017 |
Linux Command Line Basics - Introduction to the Linux command line, basic tools and shell scripting |
Computer Science Topics |
1/25/2017 |
User Showcase - Ranganathan group, web-based Psyca |
User Showcase *NOTE: This training will be held in NL12.125. |
2/1/2017 |
Introduction to BioHPC |
New User Training *NOTE: This training will be held in NL12.125. |
2/8/2017 |
Using BioHPC Thin Clients & Workstations - An introduction to the capabilities and usage of BioHPC thin-client and workstation machines |
General Computing Topics |
2/15/2017 |
Keep Big Projects Under Control - High level discussion of strategies for software development, e.g., defensive programming, writing reusable/readable code, etc. |
Computer Science Topics |
2/22/2017 |
User Showcase - astrocyte BICF workflow RNA-Seq analysis |
User Showcase |
3/1/2017 |
Introduction to BioHPC |
New User Training |
3/8/2017 |
BioHPC Cloud Storage & Backup - Fundamentals of BioHPC storage; How to access, transfer and share data using the web and other methods; Workflows for core facilities / data generating instruments; Detailed explanation of backup arrangements |
General Computing Topics |
3/15/2017 |
Monitoring and Troubleshooting on BioHPC - Understanding the performance of your job; Introduce tools to help users monitor resource usage; General troubleshooting including software, Linux system, resource management, etc. |
Computer Science Topics |
3/22/2017 |
User Showcase - BICF/QBRC lung and kidney cancer explorer |
User Showcase |
3/29/2017 |
No training session |
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4/5/2017 |
Introduction to BioHPC |
New User Training |
4/12/2017 |
Git on BioHPC - Introduction to basic Git version control workflows and the BioHPC Git service (Please note follow-up session on 7/19/2017.) |
General Computing Topics |
4/19/2017 |
File Sharing Solutions - Introduce new BioHPC FTP and Cloud services (This session will be useful if you plan to attend the UCSC genome browser session on 9/27/2016.) |
Computer Science Topics |
4/26/2017 |
User Showcase - Electron microscopy core facility pipeline |
User Showcase |
5/3/2017 |
Introduction to BioHPC |
New User Training |
5/10/2017 |
Visualization on BioHPC - An overview of the visualization software and workflows available on the BioHPC cluster; convering visualization of extremely large data and integration into data analysis workflows |
General Computing Topics |
5/17/2017 |
Parallel Programming in Matlab on BioHPC (MDCS and parallel tool box) - Speed up your Matlab analyses using parallel methods to execute code across the BioHPC cluster |
Computer Science Topics |
5/24/2017 |
User Showcase - astrocyte BICF workflow mutations analysis |
User Showcase |
5/31/2017 |
No training session |
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6/7/2017 |
Introduction to BioHPC |
New User Training |
6/14/2017 |
Job Runner/Parameter Explorer - New platform release |
General Computing Topics |
6/21/2017 |
Database System Design - From Excel to MySql |
Computer Science Topics |
6/28/2017 |
User Showcase - Danuser group |
User Showcase |