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  • Basic Bash Scripting

    Join RCAC staff as we cover the basics of bash scripting. During this workshop, we will discuss: bash script shell types variables and variable operations conditions and loops

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] An Introduction to Anvil

    • Online

    Please join us on March 12, 2021 at 2pm (Eastern Time) for a webinar introducing Anvil, the upcoming NSF funded capacity resource at Purdue University. Anvil will provide an advanced computing and data platform to support a wide range of computationa...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Using GPUs with Python presented by NVIDIA

    • MS Teams Live Event

    Kristopher Keipert from NVIDIA will lead our workshop on Using GPUs with Python. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the training, this event will be limited to 40 people. Registration is required: Registration via EventBrite Python is the lea...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] UNIX101

    • Online

    Join RCAC staff as we cover the basics of UNIX. This semester we will be presenting our workshops via Microsoft Teams Live Events this semester. During this workshop, we will discuss: Introducing the Shell Navigating Files and Directories Working W...

  • Big data research focus of free workshop Feb. 2-3

    • Online

    Purdue will host a free two-day big data workshop focusing on topics such as Hadoop and Spark on Tuesday, Feb. 2 and Wednesday, Feb. 3, for faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about tools for working with large sets of data. While simi...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Overview of the “Geddes Community Composable Platform”

    • Online

    New usage patterns of computing for research have emerged that rely on the availability of flexible, elastic, and highly specialized services that may not be well suited to traditional batch HPC. RCAC is working to enhance and evolve the research com...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] Partner Forum - Envision Center

    • Online

    Please join us this Friday, October 30, 2020, as the Envision Center team discusses the center’s services, and highlights work being done in the areas of virtual labs, collaborative VR, and motion capture. The Envision Center is a service laboratory...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series ] Overview of Bell, the latest Purdue Supercomputing Cluster

    • Online

    We will discuss: An overall review of Bell Features of AMD 'Rome' processors Discussion on packages and software on Bell

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series - Partner Forum] WHPC guest Speaker Ritu Arora

    • Online

    Ritu Arora specializes in designing high-productivity and scalable infrastructure for powering discoveries and is currently leading the development of the software infrastructure for integrating and efficiently utilizing supercomputing, cloud computi...

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop Series] What's a Cluster and how do I use one?

    • online

    We will discuss: Cluster Terminology Types of work Good Citizenship

  • Unix Shell Basics

    • online

    We will discuss: Introducing the Shell Navigating Files and Directories Working With Files and Directories

  • [RCAC Friday Workshop - Partner Forum] Autonomous real-time value-driven data augmentation in the era of big-data astronomy

    • Online

    Please join us this Friday, September 4, 2020 as Niharika Sravan, Post Doc working in conjunction with Professor Danny Milisavljevic in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, discusses their research and how RCAC resources empower their work. **Abs...

  • RCAC Friday Workshop Series - Globus Overview

    • Online

    We will discuss the capabilities and common scenarios of using Globus with your research data: transferring data; sharing data with internal and external collaborators; publishing data; access control;

  • Office Hours for BoilerKey and SSH Keys Login Questions

    • Online

    Earlier this week, due to immediate security concerns, we started to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) or SSH key authentication for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access on Research Computing clusters. Some common questions about...

  • RCAC Seminar Series Fortress Overview - Storage Series

    • Online

    We will discuss HSI HTAR what's a tar file anyway? access control

  • Office Hours for BoilerKey and SSH Keys Login Questions

    • Online

    Earlier this week, due to immediate security concerns, we started to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) or SSH key authentication for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access on Research Computing clusters. Some common questions about...

  • BOX and REED Folders at Purdue, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Storage Series

    • WebEx

    We will discuss: What are the advantages of BOX What is a REED Folder Security considerations Why folder names are so important

  • RCAC Partner Forum - Women in HPC Special guest Dr. Li Qiao presents Molecular simulations for propulsion applications

    • Online

    Please join us as we welcome our speaker for Women in High-Performance Computing group. Special guest Prof. Li Qiao will speak about her research in her group Propulsion and Energy Lab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the College...

  • RCAC 2020 Cluster Town Hall

    • Online

    Preston Smith, Executive Director of Research Computing and RCAC staff will discuss the details of the 2020 Cluster set to come online this fall. Historically this meeting is held in LWSN and due to social distancing requirements will be held online...

  • Basic Bash Scripting

    • Online

    We will discuss: bash script shell types variables and variable operations conditions and loops