To register for the workshops listed below, just click on the course title and then on the "Register HERE" link. When the Registration Site opens, follow the registration prompts. You will receive a registration confirmation via email.

Fall 2018 - Working, Advancing, & Mastering Workshop Offerings

Working with GPU

Registration Closed

Date: 27 Nov. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Working with GPU Course Site

This course offers a short overview of GPU and mostly hands on sessions on getting the HPC compute nodes with GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) installed in them for light weight computationally intensive operations. It will talk about different Software with GPU capability including the GPU use in Deep Learning.

Working with Data Visualization

Registration Closed

Date: 4 Dec. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m.

Data Visualization Course Site

Working with Data Visualization will survey common tools available through the CWRU HPC cluster. We will consider tools GNUplot, Matlab and Paraview through introductory lecture and demonstrations. An emphasis will be placed on incorporating use of these tools into scripted workflows to supplement the interactive use of these tools for exploratory visualization.

Working with Interactive Sessions

Registration Closed

Date: 16 Oct. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Interactive Sessions Course Site

Working with Interactive Sessions will provide detailed instruction to establish connected linux shell sessions on the CWRU HPC cluster. These connections may be used to establish text-based and/or graphical interface sessions. We will review how to configure the connecting computer (Windows, Mac or Linux), and, develop an understanding through practice for implementing interactive sessions for the purpose of job and data management, data transfer and use of gui-based applications.

Working with Singularity

Registration Closed

Date: 30 Oct. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Singularity Course Site

Using containers, one can easily install, distribute, and execute software in operating systems for which the software was not designed or intended to run. The safest and more advanced container solution for HPC is Singularity. With Singularity, a user can manage both Singularity and Docker containers and install their own software, or third-party software, in the HPC Cluster.

Fall 2018 - Exploring and Tinkering Workshop Offerings

Exploring Non-Tradititonal Uses for HPC -- Natural Language Processing

Registration Closed

Date: 17 Oct. 2018

Location: Crawford Hall, Room 473

Time: 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m.

Non-Trad HPC Site

Dr. Aaron Mauro will share with us his experience and projects involving Natural Language Processing.

Dr. Aaron Mauro is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He is the director of the Penn State Digital Humanities Lab and teaches on topics relating to digital culture, computational text analysis, and scholarly communication. His articles on U.S. literature and culture have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, and Symploke among others. He has also published on issues relating to digital humanities in both Digital Studies and Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Tinkering with Natural Language Processing using NLTK

Registration Closed

Dates: 25 Oct. and 1 Nov. 2018

Location: Crawford Hall, Room 539

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

This two-part workshop provides a cursory introduction to Natural Language Processing and the Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK). Using Python and the NLTK Corpora we will work with a set of pre-selected texts to learn more about tokenizing, stemming, lemmatization, and tagging.

Exploring Non-Tradititonal Uses for HPC -- Voyant Tools

Registration Closed

Date: 7 Nov. 2018

Location: Crawford Hall, Room 473

Time: 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m.

Non-Trad HPC Course Site

Dr. Stéfan Sinclair and Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell will give a demonstration of and discuss their work with Voyant Tools

Dr. Sinclair is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill University. His primary area of research is in the design, development, usage and theorization of tools for the digital humanities, especially for text analysis and visualization.

Dr. Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. His work focuses on textual visualization and analysis, and computing in the humanities.

Fall '18 Introduction to HPC

Introduction to HPC

Registration Closed

Date: 11 Sept. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 9:00a.m. - 12:50p.m.

Intro to HPC Course Site

In addition to an Introductory orientation to the CWRU HPC environment, this workshop will cover a brief introduction to Linux, how to connect and work on the cluster, and the basics of data transfer and management. After this initial, introductory workshop, participants are encouraged to join us for the subsequent offerings. These follow-up workshops will provide participants with a opportunity for more hands on work on the topics introduced in the initial meeting.

Introduction to HPC - Week 2 - Working with Linux

Registration Closed

Date: 18 Sept. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Linux Course Site

This hands-on session will provide a more detailed experience with the Linux materials presented in the initial Introduction to HPC session.

Introduction to HPC - Week 3 - Job Scheduling

Registration Closed

Date: 25 Sept. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Job Scheduling Course Site

This workshop is a deeper dive into submitting jobs in the cluster and includes some hands-on practice. A few use cases will be given to examine several possibilities on automating the job submission process.

Introduction to HPC - Week 4 - Data Transfer and Management

Registration Closed

Date: 2 Oct. 2018

Location: Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall

Time: 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.

Data Transfer Course Site

This workshop will introduce best practices for data transfer and data management. We will discuss different use cases for data transfer and demonstrate tools that make it easier to move files across the campus and out to external collaborators.