September 2015 Training Sessions Announced

Join us to learn more about Research Computing and HiPerGator. No registration is necessary. Valid RC user account is required. Please bring a laptop so you can follow along with examples.

Thursday, September 3, 2015
UF Research Computing: An Introduction and Getting Started
Location: NPB 2205
Time: 12:50 pm
This session will provide a general overview of the UF Research Computing facilities and basic usage of HiPerGator. It is intended for new users.

Thursday, September 10, 2015
An Introduction to the Linux Command Line
Location: NPB 2205
Time: 12:50 pm
This session will lead participants through some exercises that go over basic Linux commands such as moving around the file system, making directories, moving and copying files, etc. We will also go over some of the applications you can use on your computer to connect to and move files to and from HiPerGator. This session is largely aimed at users who are new to the command line.

Thursday, September 17, 2015
HiPerGator: Running Jobs and Submission Scripts
Location: NPB 2205
Time: 12:50 pm
This training session will pick up from last week and focus on writing job submission scripts. We’ll look at the most common scheduler directives and how to tell the scheduler the information it needs to run your jobs efficiently. This session assumes a basic familiarity with the Unix command line and will be aimed at beginning to intermediate users.

Thursday, September 24, 2015
MATLAB at Research Computing: A Hands-on Tutorial to Running Your MATLAB Code at Research Computing
Location: NPB 2205
Time: 12:50 pm
This session will walk users through a hands-on example of using MATLAB at Research Computing. We’ll look at using the MATLAB GUI, compiling code and submitting MATLAB jobs to the scheduler to run on the cluster.

For more information, including supplemental materials, visit the Training page on our wiki.