Fall research computing workshop series
Level up your research computing skills and knowledge by registering for one or more of these workshops, offered by Advanced Research Computing for Virginia Tech users at all experience levels.
From: Division of Information Technology
Do your fall goals include learning more about how high-performance computing (HPC) can benefit your research?
Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is offering a twice-weekly series of high-performance computing (HPC) workshops designed to help students, faculty, and research teams at all experience levels enhance their skills in high-performance and data-intensive computing. All workshops are delivered via Zoom to make participation easy.
The sessions will take place between Sept. 2 and Oct. 23, with two one-hour workshops offered each week. Workshops are open to all members of the university community and include topics ranging from introductory computing concepts to advanced techniques for HPC.
About the workshops
(Recordings of past workshops listed below can be found on the workshops page.)
Week of Aug. 31
- Wednesday, Sept. 2: Advanced Research Computing Roadmap (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Sept. 4: SSH Keys on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Sept. 7
- Wednesday, Sept. 9: Setting Up VSCode for Login Node Use on ARC Clusters (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Sept. 11: Setting Up VSCode for Compute Node Use on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Sept. 14
- Thursday, Sept. 17: ARC Clusters and Open OnDemand (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Sept. 18: Running Jobs on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Sept. 21
- Wednesday, Sept. 23: GPU Essentials on ARC Clusters (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Sept. 25: How to Select Compute Resources for a Job on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Sept. 28
- Wednesday, Sept. 30: LLM Resources on ARC Systems (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Oct. 2: LLM Use on ARC Systems (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Oct. 5
- Wednesday, Oct. 7: Best Practices for Visualization on ARC Clusters (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Oct. 9: Virtual Environments on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Oct. 12
- Wednesday, Oct. 14: Resource Utilization and Job Efficiency on ARC Clusters (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Oct. 16: Scalable Job Submission on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Week of Oct. 19
- Wednesday, Oct. 21: Containers on ARC Clusters (4 to 5 p.m.).
- Friday, Oct. 23: Data Transfer and Sharing on ARC Clusters (noon to 1 p.m.).
Register through the TLOS Professional Development Network
View the list of ARC workshops on the Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) website, and register for each session you’d like to attend.
Zoom links and materials for each workshop are also available on the ARC Workshops webpage; however, you must also register via the TLOS catalog if you wish to receive computer refresh credit for attending.
Questions about the workshops can be directed to Chris Kuhlman at ckuhlman@vt.edu.