The CRCD team will not have a series of team-led workshops this semester and is instead promoting some relevant workshops from our archive as well as third-party workshops that we become aware of over the course of the semester.
Third Party Workshops and Events
Upcoming
NVIDIA DLI Workshops at GTC 2025
NVIDIA GTC 2025 has a free registration option for virtual attendees that provides full access to content.
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Post-NVIDIA GTC 2025 Highlights Event
Friday, 4/4 - 11am-1pm EST
This event is a chance to discuss key takeaways, demos, and insights from the conference.
Past
NVIDIA Presentation: 5 Ways to Get Started with GPUs
Friday, 2/28 – 11am-12pm EST
An introduction to GPU acceleration that outlines the 5 ways to accelerate computationally intensive code using GPUs. This session is a great starting point for those who would like to begin leveraging the benefits of accelerated computing. We offer a variety of easy methods to get started and touch on the more advanced methods.
Presenter: Mike O’Keeffe, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
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NVIDIA Workshop: Using NVIDIA GPUs with Python
Thursday, 3/6 – 3pm-5pm EST
In this workshop, attendees will get hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. We will utilize code samples in two main categories to introduce you to Python GPU accelerated computing. First, we will explore drop-in replacements for SciPy and NumPy code through the CuPy library. Second, we’ll cover NVIDIA RAPIDS, which provides GPU acceleration for end-to-end data science workloads. We'll finish with an end-to-end example that incorporates all the tools introduced to tackle a geospatial problem. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have the skills to start accelerating their own Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs!
Instructor: Zoe Ryan, Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
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Archive Workshops
CRCD Ecosystem On-ramp
Run date: September 12, 2024
This on-ramp session introduces users to the CRCD’s specialized compute resources and data storage systems.
Topics covered include cluster access modalities, loading software tools with the LMOD module system, scheduling jobs with SLURM, and resource usage strategies.
Prerequisite: CRCD user account
Workshop Recording (hosted on Panopto)
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Hands-on Introduction to Linux
Run Date: February 15, 2024
Competency with Linux is crucial to most effectively use the CRCD’s advanced cyberinfrastructure. While the CRCD provides GUI portals to help ease the transition from a laptop to our ecosystem, being able to work at the command line interface (CLI) will create the greatest efficiencies.
In this hands-on workshop, we will demonstrate using the command line interface (CLI) in various topics including navigating the filesystem hierarchy; file creation, deletion, and renaming; file permissions; using the pipe command to string together basic commands into one more powerful command; aliases; text editing; and Bash shell scripting examples. Attendees will gain an overview of common CLI operations and external links to further reading.
Prerequisite: CRCD user account
Workshop Recording (hosted on Panopto)