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A comprehensive list of training resources from the HPC University. HPCU is a virtual organization whose primary goal is to provide a cohesive, persistent, and sustainable on-line environment to share educational and training materials for a continuum of high performance computing environments that span desktop computing capabilities to the highest-end of computing facilities offered by HPC centers.
Cornell Virtual Workshop is a comprehensive training resource for high performance computing topics. The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) is a leader in the development and deployment of Web-based training programs. Our Cornell Virtual Workshop learning platform is designed to enhance the computational science skills of researchers, accelerate the adoption of new and emerging technologies, and broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering. Over 350,000 unique visitors have accessed Cornell Virtual Workshop training on programming languages, parallel computing, code improvement, and data analysis. The platform supports learning communities around the world, with code examples from national systems such as Frontera, Stampede2, and Jetstream2.
The documentation provides an overview of using Pegasus, a workflow management system, on ACCESS resources for high throughput computing (HTC) workloads, covering logging in, workflow creation, resource configuration, and monitoring options.
DARWIN (Delaware Advanced Research Workforce and Innovation Network) is a big data and high performance computing system designed to catalyze Delaware research and education
This Udacity article listed the most frequently used R packages for data science and statistics. For each package, the article provided the link to its official documentation. It will be a great start point if you want to start your data science journey in R.
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.
These links take you to visualization resources supported by the University of Arizona's HPC visualization consultant ([rtdatavis.github.io](http://rtdatavis.github.io/)). The following links are specific to the Paraview program and the workflows that have been used my researchers at the U of Arizona. These links are distinct from the others posted in the beginner paraview access ci links from the University of Arizona in that they are for more complex workflows. The links included explain how to use the terminal with paraview (pvpython), and the steps to leverage HPC resources for headless batch rendering. The batch rendering tutorial is significantly more complex than the others so if you find yourself stuck please post on the https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/ and I will try to troubleshoot with you.
Numba is a Python compiler designed for accelerating numerical and array operations, enabling users to enhance their application's performance by writing high-performance functions in Python itself. It utilizes LLVM to transform pure Python code into optimized machine code, achieving speeds comparable to languages like C, C++, and Fortran. Noteworthy features include dynamic code generation during import or runtime, support for both CPU and GPU hardware, and seamless integration with the Python scientific software ecosystem, particularly Numpy.
NCSA is the home of Delta, a computing and data resource that balances cutting-edge graphics processor and CPU architectures with a non-POSIX file system with a POSIX-like interface. Delta allows applications to reap the benefits of modern file systems without rewriting code.
Mathematical optimization deals with the problem of finding numerically minimums or maximums of a functions. This tutorial provides the Python solutions for the optimization problems with examples.
Data augmentation is a crucial step in the pipeline for image classification with deep learning. Albumentations is an extremely versatile Python library that can be used to easily augment images. Transformations include rotations, flips, downscaling, distortions, blurs, and many more.
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Buslaev A, Iglovikov VI, Khvedchenya E, Parinov A, Druzhinin M, Kalinin AA. Albumentations: Fast and Flexible Image Augmentations. Information. 2020; 11(2):125. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11020125
Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. It contains tools for data preparation, classification, regression, clustering, association rules mining, and visualization.
This textbook is the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines including computational neurosciences, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It was published in 2022 and it's open access at this time. The contents in this textbook should be educational to those who want to understand how the free energy principle is applied to the normative behavior of living organisms and who want to widen their knowledge of sequential decision making under uncertainty.
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.
The research paper provides an overview of various datasets that have been used to study fairness in machine learning. It discusses the characteristics of these datasets, such as their size, diversity, and the fairness-related challenges they address. The paper also examines the different domains and applications covered by these datasets.
Snakemake is a powerful and versatile workflow management system that simplifies the creation, execution, and management of data analysis pipelines. It uses a user-friendly, Python-based language to define workflows, making it particularly valuable for automating and reproducibly managing complex computational tasks in research and data analysis.
Some examples for writing Thrust code. To compile, download the CUDA compiler from NVIDIA. This code was tested with CUDA 9.2 but is likely compatible with other versions. Before compiling change extension from thrust_ex.txt to thrust_ex.cu. Any code on the device (GPU) that is run through a Thrust transform is automatically parallelized on the GPU. Host (CPU) code will not be. Thrust code can also be compiled to run on a CPU for practice.
Astropy is a community-driven package that offers core functionalities needed for astrophysical computations and data analysis. From coordinate transformations to time and date handling, unit conversions, and cosmological calculations, Astropy ensures that astronomers can focus on their research without getting bogged down by the intricacies of programming. This guide walks you through practical usage of astropy from CCD data reduction to computing galactic orbits of stars.
The free online book for the mlr3 machine learning framework for R. Gives a comprehensive overview of the package and ecosystem, suitable from beginners to experts. You'll learn how to build and evaluate machine learning models, build complex machine learning pipelines, tune their performance automatically, and explain how machine learning models arrive at their predictions.
MATLAB is a really useful tool for data analysis among other computational work. This tutorial takes you through using MATLAB with other programming languages including C, C++, Fortran, Java, and Python.
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.
Horovod is a distributed deep learning training framework. Using horovod, a single-GPU training script can be scaled to train across many GPUs in parallel. The library supports popular deep learning framework such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet.
The Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook website is a dedicated online resource for users in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics. It provides a collection of tutorials and practical examples focused on using the Biopython library.
The website offers a series of tutorials that cover various aspects of Biopython, catering to users with different levels of expertise. It also includes code snippets and examples, and common solutions to common challenges in computational biology.
Self-paced tutorials on high-end computing topics such as parallel computing, multi-core performance, and performance tools. Some of the tutorials also offer digital badges.