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The Center for Integrated Research Computing (CIRC) offers workshops every Spring and Fall that introduce users to the BlueHive computing environment and other computing resources that CIRC supports. The workshops include sessions in the morning targeted for new and beginning users, and afternoon sessions covering a few more in-depth topics and tools and applications that are available to the research community.

This year’s Fall Workshop will take place on from 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Friday, October 30th, in the VISTA Collaboratory. All workshop attendees should bring a laptop and have a computing account on BlueHive. For more details on the content of the workshop, see the schedule below.

Schedule

Getting Connected (10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.)

How to set up Duo Two-Factor Authentication, connecting to BlueHive and other CIRC services from both on- and off-campus, different methods of connection (Terminal/PuTTY, FastX).

Overview of BlueHive (10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)

Overview of BlueHive and the basics of working with a High Performance Computing system, differences between login and computing nodes, places to get additional information (info.circ).

Introduction to Linux (11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)

Beginner’s introduction to Linux and the command line, navigating directories, viewing and editing files.

Lunch Break (12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

Slurm and Running Jobs (12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)

Overview of Slurm and workload management, basic Slurm commands, running jobs interactively and in batch mode, running jobs in parallel, Slurm best practices.

Modules and Software (1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

Using software available on BlueHive, what modules are and how to load them, installing and managing Python environments.

Remote Visualization (2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.)

Basic aspects of display forwarding, FastX and VirtualGL, using VISTA

Introduction to Jupyter (2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Introduction to Jupyter, basics of using notebooks in different languages (Python, R, Spark), running Jupyter on BlueHive.

Introduction to Gitlab (3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)

Basics of git and version control systems, software hosting and distribution, using GitLab in the CIRC environment.