These resources have been contributed and “vetted” by the community of cyberinfrastructure professionals (researchers, research computing facilitators, research software engineers and HPC system administrators) that are participating in programs such as this one, that are supported by the ConnectCI community management platform. Additional Knowledge Base Resources are always welcome!
Neurodesk provides a containerised data analysis environment to facilitate reproducible analysis of neuroimaging data. Analysis pipelines for neuroimaging data typically rely on specific versions of packages and software, and are dependent on their native operating system. These dependencies mean that a working analysis pipeline may fail or produce different results on a new computer, or even on the same computer after a software update. Neurodesk provides a platform in which anyone, anywhere, using any computer can reproduce your original research findings given the original data and analysis code.
This course is an introduction to the R programming language and covers the fundamental concepts needed to operate in the R environment. This course was taught for the ACCESS community on September 26, 2023, but the materials for the course are still available on the ACES cluster and can be completed independently. All materials are presented as learnR notebooks and cover several topics, including data types, variables, built-in functions, data structures, and plotting.
ACCESS requests proposals to be written following NSF proposal guidelines. The link provides an example of an ACCESS proposal using an NSF LaTeX template. The request is at the DISCOVER level appropriate for Campus Champions. The file is 2 pages: the first page details the motivation, approach, and resources requested; and the second page is a 1-page bio.
Iterative Programming takes place when you can explore your code and play with your objects and functions without needing to save, recompile, or leave your development environment. This has traditionally been achieved with a REPL or an interactive shell. The magic of Jupyter Notebooks is that the interactive shell is saved as a persistant document, so you don't have to flip back and forth between your code files and the shell in order to program iteratively.
There are several editors and IDE's that are intended for notebook development, but JupyterLab is a natural choice because it is free and open source and most closely related to the Jupyter Notebooks/iPython projects. The chief motivation of this repository is to enable an IDE-like development environment through the use of extensions. There are also expositional notebooks to show off the usefulness of these features.
Jetstream2 makes cutting-edge high-performance computing and software easy to use for your research regardless of your project’s scale—even if you have limited experience with supercomputing systems.Cloud-based and on-demand, the 24/7 system includes discipline-specific apps. You can even create virtual machines that look and feel like your lab workstation or home machine, with thousands of times the computing power.
In this tutorial, I present an overview with many examples of the use of Numpy and Pandas for data analysis. Beginners in the field of data analysis can find It incredibly helpful, and at the same time, anyone who already has experience in data analysis and needs a refresher can find value in it. I discuss the use of Numpy for analyzing 1D and 2D multidimensional data and an introduction on using Pandas to manipulate CSV files.
This package lets you easily scrape websites and extract information based on html tags and various other metadata found in the page. It can be useful for large-scale web analysis and other tasks requiring automated data gathering.
It's not uncommon to see beautiful visualizations in HPC center galleries, but the majority of these are either rendered off the HPC or created using programs that run on OpenGL or custom rasterization techniques. To put it simply the next generation of graphics provided by OpenGL's successor Vulkan is strangely absent in the super computing world. The aim of this survey of available resources is to determine the systems that can support Vulkan workflows and programs. This will assist users in getting past some of the first hurdles in using Vulkan in HPC contexts.
Purdue University is the home of Anvil, a powerful supercomputer that provides advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research spanning from traditional high-performance computing to modern artificial intelligence applications.
OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an API that supports multi-platform shared-memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran on many platforms, instruction-set architectures and operating systems, including Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It consists of a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that influence run-time behavior.
Hour of Cyberinfrastructure (Hour of CI) is a nationwide campaign to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to cyberinfrastructure and geographic information science (GIS).
With the recent uprising of LLM's many business are looking at way to adopt these LLMs and fine-tuning these models on specfic data sets to ensure accuracy. These models when fine-tuned can be optimal for fulfilling the specific needs of a company. This site explains explicitly when, how, and why models should be trained. It goes over various strategies for LLM fine -tuning.
CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics) is a widely distributed molecular simulation program with a broad array of applications. CHARMM has the capabilities to setup and run simulations on both biological and materials systems, contains a comprehensive set of analysis and tools, and has high performance on a variety of platforms. Here you will find links to the CHARMM website, forum, and registration/download page.
The following link provides an easy method of implementing Markov Decision Processes (MDP) in the Julia computing language. MDPs are a class of algorithms designed to handle stochastic situations where the actor has some level of control. For example, used at a low level, MDPs can be used to control an inverted pendulum, but applied in higher level decision making the can also decide when to take evasive action in air traffic management. MDPs can also be extended to the partially observable domain to form the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). This link contains a wealth of information to show one can easily implement basic POMDP and MDP algorithms and apply well known online and offline solvers.
A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a technology that creates a secure tunnel between your device and a VPN server. This tunnel encrypts all of your traffic, making it unreadable to anyone who tries to intercept it.
Below is a link for a book that focuses on how to use "sf" and "terra" packages for GIS computations. As of 5/1/2023, this book is up to date and examples are error free. The book has a lot of information but provides a good overview and example workflows on how to use these tools.
The Data-Facing Track of the People Network brings together people from research computing groups, libraries, research institutes, and other organizations who support data-enabled research. Many of us are also Researcher-Facing, but this track is an opportunity to discuss the varied challenges of working with data.
CS244N is a renowned natural language processing course offered by Stanford University and taught by Christopher Manning. It covers a wide range of topics in NLP, including language modeling, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and more. It teaches both foundational concepts and cutting-edge research to gain a comprehensive understanding of NLP techniques and applications.
CMake is an open-source tool used to manage the build process in operating systems. This tutorial takes you through how to use CMake from the very basics with example projects.
This is the official University of Oxford FSL group lecture page. This includes information on upcoming and past courses (online and in-person), as well as lecture materials. Available lecture materials includes slides and recordings on using FSL, MR physics, and applications of imaging data.
Pandas is one of the most essential Python libraries for data analysis and manipulation. It provides high-performance, easy-to-use data structures, and data analysis tools for the Python programming language. The official documentation serves as an in-depth guide to using this powerful tool including explanations and examples.
Numpy is a python package that leverages types and compiled C code to make many math operations in Python efficient. It is especially useful for matrix manipulation and operations.