Research computing workshops for new and experienced users start Jan. 23
Offered by Advanced Research Computing, these weekly workshops, plus a Spring Break Boot Camp, offer research computing guidance for Virginia Tech users at all experience levels.
From: Division of Information Technology
Are you interested in learning how high-performance computing (HPC) can benefit your research, or ready to explore more-advanced (HPC) techniques?
Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is offering a 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.
Sessions are open to all members of the university community and include topics ranging from introductory computing concepts to advanced techniques for HPC.
For spring 2026, ARC will offer weekly Zoom workshops as well as a Spring Break Boot Camp.
Weekly ARC Zoom workshops
Each Friday Zoom workshop will be held from noon to 1 p.m. with topics scheduled as follows:
- Jan. 23: Advanced Research Computing Roadmap
- Jan. 30: Connect to ARC Systems with VSCode
- Feb. 6: Running Jobs on ARC Systems
- Feb. 13: Monitoring Resource Utilization and Job Efficiency
- Feb. 20: Managing Data on ARC File Systems
- Feb. 27: Virtual Environments on ARC
- Mar. 6: Best Practices Overview, Part 1
- Mar. 20: LLMs on ARC Systems (Large Language Models)
- Mar. 27: Interactive Development on ARC with VSCode
- Apr. 3: Launching Jobs in Parallel on ARC Clusters
- Apr. 10: Data Transfer and Sharing on ARC
- Apr. 17: Hands-on HPC Access and Application with Open OnDemand
- Apr. 24: Containers on ARC
- May 1: Best Practices Overview, Part 2
Spring Break Boot Camp, March 9-13
With two, 2-hour sessions per day, the ARC Spring Break Boot Camp offers a deeper dive into techniques and best practices for using HPC, visualization, LLMs, and more. Registration is per-session, so you can attend any or all that fit your schedule!
- Monday, Mar. 9:
- 10 a.m. to 12 noon: Managing, Transferring, and Sharing Data on ARC
- 2 to 4 p.m.: GPU Essentials (Graphics Processing Unit)
- Tuesday, Mar. 10:
- 10 a.m. to 12 noon: HPC for Materials Modeling and Simulations
- 2 to 4 p.m.: Graph Analytics in Research Computing
- Wednesday, Mar. 11:
- 10 a.m. to 12 noon: Bash Scripting I
- 2 to 4 p.m.: Bash Scripting II
- Thursday, Mar. 12:
- 10 a.m. to 12 noon: Best Practices for Visualization
- 2 to 4 p.m.: Advanced LLM on ARC Systems
- Friday, Mar. 13:
- 10 a.m. to 12 noon: Scalable Jobs Submissions
- 2 to 4 p.m.: Different Paradigms of Parallel Computing
Register through the TLOS Professional Development Network
View the list of ARC workshops on the Technology-enhanced Learning & Online Strategies Professional Development Network (TLOS PDN) website, and register for each session you’d like to attend.
Zoom links for each workshop are also available on the ARC Workshops webpage; however, you must also register via the TLOS PDN if you wish to receive PDN credit for attending.
Questions about the workshops can be directed to Sarah Ghazanfari at sarahghazanfari@vt.edu.