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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.
This course from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) covers very basic information on how to get started with programming using Python. Lectures are available, along with practice assignments, to users at no cost. Python has many applications in tech today, from web frameworks to machine learning. This course will also instruct users on how to get set up with an IDE, which will allow for way more efficient debugging.
Understand the benefits of an automated version control system and the basics of how automated version control systems work. Configure git the first time it is used on a computer and understand the meaning of the --global configuration flag. Create a local Git repository and describe the purpose of the .git directory. Go through the modify-add-commit cycle for one or more files, explain where information is stored at each stage of that cycle, and distinguish between descriptive and non-descriptive commit messages.
Learn how to use Linux commands in a python script. Specifically, learn how to use the subprocess and os modules in python to run shell commands (which run Linux commands) in a python script that is run on a cluster.
This workshop focuses on developing an understanding of the fundamentals of attention and the transformer architecture so that you can understand how LLMs work and use them in your own projects.
This workshop series introduces the essential concepts in deep learning and walks through the common steps in a deep learning workflow from data loading and preprocessing to training and model evaluation. Throughout the sessions, students participate in writing and executing simple deep learning programs using Pytorch – a popular Python library for developing, training, and deploying deep learning models.
Monthly workshops sponsored by ACCESS on a variety of HPC topics organized by Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). Each workshop will be telecast to multiple satellite sites and workshop materials are archived.
DeapSECURE is a training program to infuse high-performance computational techniques into cybersecurity research and education. It is an NSF-funded project of the ODU School of Cybersecurity along with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Information Technology Services at ODU. The DeapSECURE team has developed six non-degree training modules to expose cybersecurity students to advanced CI platforms and techniques rooted in big data, machine learning, neural networks, and high-performance programming. Techniques taught in DeapSECURE workshops are rather general and transferable to other areas including science, engineering, finance, linguistics, etc. All lesson materials are made available as open-source educational resources.
OnShape FeatureScripts allow users to create their own features via OnShape's programming language. The user can make these as simple or complex as they need, and they can save tons of time for heavy OnShape users or complex projects!
The authoritative book on automated machine learning, which allows practitioners without ML expertise to develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning approaches. Describes the background of techniques used in detail, along with tools that are available for free.
Materials from the SAIL meeting (https://aiinstitutes.org/2023/06/21/sail-2023-summit-for-ai-leadership/). A space where AI researchers can learn about using ACCESS resources for AI applications and research.
Python has become a very popular programming language and software ecosystem for work in Data Science, integrating support for data access, data processing, modeling, machine learning, and visualization. In this webinar, we will describe some of the key Python packages that have been developed to support that work, and highlight some of their capabilities. This webinar will also serve as an introduction and overview of topics addressed in two Cornell Virtual Workshop tutorials, available at https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/pydatasci1 and https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/pydatasci2
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.
Self-paced tutorials on high-end computing topics such as parallel computing, multi-core performance, and performance tools. Other related topics include 'Cybersecurity for End Users' and 'Developing Webinar Training.' Some of the tutorials also offer digital badges. Many of these tutorials were previously offered on CI-Tutor. A list of open access training courses are provided below.
Parallel Computing on High-Performance Systems
Profiling Python Applications
Using an HPC Cluster for Scientific Applications
Debugging Serial and Parallel Codes
Introduction to MPI
Introduction to OpenMP
Introduction to Visualization
Introduction to Performance Tools
Multilevel Parallel Programming
Introduction to Multi-core Performance
Using the Lustre File System
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.
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a hyper-converged infrastructure open-source software. It is a hosted hypervisor that can run operating systems including Linux and Windows on x64 hardware.
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.
The Why & How seminar series is designed to introduce research assistants, graduate students, and postdoctoral and clinical fellows – really, anyone who is interested – to the many tools used in medical imaging. These include software tools and most of the major imaging modalities wielded by investigators (MRI, PET, EEG, MEG, optical, TMS and others). As the name of the series suggests, the talks cover both the reasons researchers might need a particular tool and the nuts and bolts of how to apply it. You can watch videos of the overviews below.
Trinity is one of the most popular tool to assemble transcripts from RNA-Seq short reads. In this tutorial, we will cover the basic usage of Trinity, best practice and common problems.
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.