ICDS offers a series of training sessions on using the Roar and Roar Collab supercomputers. New and experienced users alike can learn to use the system and discover HPC best practices. The series offers hands-on tutorials taught by ICDS engineers and researchers.
Links to external supercomputing training resources can be found here.
Important: Because this training includes hands-on examples we recommend that all attendees have an active Roar account. Apply for an account here.
Upcoming Events
New User Training: Scheduling Batch Jobs and Command Line Access
Date: Wednesday, September 18
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
After attending this workshop, learners will be able to: Understand what resources and support ICDS offers, and which ones are applicable to their research including computing types and storage locations Use the module command to search and utilize available software from the Software Stack Request appropriate resources using the Slurm scheduler to launch interactive or […]
New User Training: Getting Your Software Running on Roar
Date: Wednesday, September 25
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
After attending this workshop, learners will be able to: Access, search, and use software from the software stack Identify what factors can prevent users from setting up their own software and how to request installation of software by ICDS staff Install user level packages for R and python Create custom environments using anaconda, including searching […]
New User Training: Optimizing Jobs
Date: Wednesday, October 2
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
After attending this workshop, learners will be able to: Understand what multicore processing is, how to identify if your existing software is capable of it, and understand the rough process to implement it in custom code Identify what resources jobs utilized and modify future resource requests appropriately Understand job-chaining/workflows and checkpointing and how to set […]
Session Videos
Even when there are no scheduled live training sessions you can still watch our recordings of previous Roar trainings.