Knowledge Base Resources

• Carpentries.org

We teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.

• Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

This is a great mentoring resource and has many articles related to mentoring. It is a one-stop shop for mentoring, and at the bottom, there are tags based on topics, and interested users can pick and choose articles and resources on different types of mentorship.

• Workshop Tutorial

This comprehensive workshop is designed to guide participants through the world of cryptography, from foundational concepts to advanced implementations. Starting with the basics of encryption, decryption, and hashing, the workshop discusses real-world applications like SSL, blockchain, and digital signatures. Interactive Python-based coding examples, such as symmetric and asymmetric encryption, will provide hands-on experience. Participants will also learn to identify cryptographic vulnerabilities and perform attacks like length extension. Finally, the workshop also explores future trends such as quantum cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, providing participants with the knowledge to apply cryptography in securing modern digital systems. Ideal for beginners and intermediate learners alike, this workshop is a step-by-step journey into mastering cryptographic principles and practices.

• Relion Website

RELION (REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN, pronounced rely-on) is a stand-alone software package developed by Sjors Scheres' group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. It employs an empirical Bayesian approach for electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) structure determination, specifically for refining multiple 3D reconstructions or 2D class averages.

• Open Ondemand Home Page

Open OnDemand is an easy-to-use web portal that lets students, researchers, and industry professionals use supercomputers from anywhere. It is installed on supercomputing resources at hundreds of sites. By eliminating the need for client software or command-line interface, Open OnDemand empowers users of all skill levels and significantly speeds up the time to their first computing.

• HPC Carpentry

An HPC focused Carpentry community. Trainings include: HPC fundamentals, python, chapel, LAMMPS, parallelization with python, scaling studies, etc.

• Expanse Home Page

Expanse at SDSC is a cluster designed by Dell and SDSC delivering 5.16 peak petaflops, and offers Composable Systems and Cloud Bursting.

• Warewulf Documentation

Warewulf is an operating system provisioning platform for Linux that is designed to produce secure, scalable, turnkey cluster deployments that maintain flexibility and simplicity. It can be used to setup a stateless provisioning in HPC environment.

• Ask.CI

• phenoACCESS-24: Workshop on Research Computing and Plant Phenotyping

phenoACCESS-24: Workshop on Research Computing and Plant Phenotyping High-throughput plant phenotyping is computationally intensive, requiring data storage, data processing and analysis, research computing expertise, and mechanisms for data sharing. This workshop is aimed at research computing workforce development by addressing questions such as what is plant phenotyping; what types of data are collected; what are the preprocessing and analytical needs; what tools and platforms exist for data capture, management, analysis, and storage; and how best to collaborate and engage with phenotyping researchers. The full-day agenda will include speakers (scientists and research compute staff); panel discussions (how to work with research computing staff and facilities; how to engage with phenotyping scientists), and networking opportunities (meet-and-greet, ice breakers, small group discussions). The videos and slide decks for the talks are included on the linked page.

• Feed-Forward and SGD

Feed-forward neural networks are a simple type of network that simply rely on data to be "fed-forward" through a series of layers that makes decisions on how to categorize datum. Gradient descent is a type of optimization tool that is often used to train machines. These two areas in ML are good starting points and are the easiest types of neural network/optimization to understand.

• InsideHPC HomePage

InsideHPC is an informational site offers videos, research papers, articles, and other resources focused on machine learning and quantum computing among other topics within high performance computing.

• Find Online Master's in Business Analytics

A degree in business analytics looks different in today’s world than it did a decade ago. In its most current application, business analytics uses modern data science and capabilities in machine learning (ML). The magic comes into play when these are leveraged for strategic planning.

• Discover Data Science

Discover Data Science is all about making connections between prospective students and educational opportunities in an exciting new, hot, and growing field – data science.

• https://cnct.ci

Connect.Cybinfrastructure is a family of portals, each representing a program that is serving a segment of the research computing and data community. Each portal provides program-specific information, as well a custom "view" into a common database. The portal was originally developed to support project workflows and a knowledge base of self service learning resources for the Northeast Cyberteam. Subsequently, it was expanded to provide support to multiple cyberteams and other research computing communities of practice. We welcome additional communities, please contact us if you are interested in participating. Central to the Portal is an extensive and ever-evolving tagging infrastructure which informs every aspect of the Portal. The tag taxonomy was initially developed by the Northeast Cyberteam to categorize subject matter relevant to practitioners of Research Computing Facilitation and is ever changing due to the frequent introduction of new technology in domains that characterize the field of research computing.

• Want NSF funding? You'll need to submit a grad student mentoring plan

Details of the NSF's new policy, which extends the existing requirements for postdocs.

• Guide to data visualization with matplotlib

Data visualization is a critical aspect of data analysis. It allows for a clear and concise representation of data, making it easier for users to understand and interpret complex datasets. One of the most popular libraries for data visualization in Python is Matplotlib. The included website aims to provide a brief overview of Matplotlib, its features, and examples/exercises to dive deeper into its functionalities.

• Creating a Mobile Application

Goes through in detail on how to build an application that can run on Android and IOS devices, using Qt Creator to develop Qt Quick applications. Goes through the setting up, creation, configuration, optimization, and overall deployment. This provides the fundamental basis, need to click around on the site for more specifics.

• Trusted CI Resources Page

Very helpful list of external resources from Trusted CI

• Bridges 2 Home Page

Landing Page for Bridges-2 information

• NITRC

The Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (NITRC) is a neuroimaging informatics knowledge environment for MR, PET/SPECT, CT, EEG/MEG, optical imaging, clinical neuroinformatics, imaging genomics, and computational neuroscience tools and resources.

• Developer Stories Podcast

As developers, we get excited to think about challenging problems. When you ask us what we are working on, our eyes light up like children in a candy store. So why is it that so many of our developer and software origin stories are not told? How did we get to where we are today, and what did we learn along the way? This podcast aims to look “Behind the Scenes of Tech’s Passion Projects and People.” We want to know your developer story, what you have built, and why. We are an inclusive community - whatever kind of institution or country you hail from, if you are passionate about software and technology you are welcome!

• What is VPN? How It Works, Types of VPN

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.

• CaRCC Data Facing Track Page

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.

• Events and Training

Listing of upcoming ACCESS related events and training activities.