Tutorials
HPC@LSU invites you to attend our weekly training scheduled every Wednesdays, except university holidays.
Due to concern about the COVID-19 pandemic, all training sessions are pure Zoom online events from 9:00AM to 11:00AM. The sessions will be available only for remote participants and will be recorded for later review.
The training sessions are subject to cancellation due to lack of registrations, so please register if you plan on attending. Registration closes in the afternoon on the day prior to the training.
Click on the tutorial topic to obtain more information and registration details. Remote connect links to attend the training will be provided via email to all registered participants.
Note: The Slide and Support Materials links are placeholders until content is added after the tutorial.
Fall 2020 Training Schedule
1. September 23,2020: Basic Shell Scripting
| Topic | Basic Shell Scripting |
| Date | September 23,2020 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | For anyone who works in a Linux/Unix environment, a working knowledge of shell scripting is essential and will boost their efficiency and productivity tremendously. For this tutorial, we will focus on bash as it is one of the most popular shells. This tutorial will include topics such as creating simple bash scripts, flow control, command line arguments, regex, grep, awk and sed. This is a practical tutorial, so we will provide examples and/or hands-on exercises for most of the covered materials.
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| Registration | Click here |
2. October 14,2020: Open OnDemand: Interactive HPC via the Web
| Topic | Open OnDemand: Interactive HPC via the Web |
| Date | October 14,2020 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | This training will provide an introduction to Open OnDemand, a browser based tool now available to all LSU HPC users on campus. Open OnDemand requires only a web browser (no plug-ins) and an LSU HPC account. It features a file browser, command line shell access, job management, and access to interactive Jupyter notebooks and RStudio servers running interactively on SuperMike-II's compute nodes. This training will feature an overview of Open OnDemand, and a demonstration of all it's features, including Jupyter Notebook and RStudio.
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| Registration | Click here |
3. October 21,2020: Introduction to R
| Topic | Introduction to R |
| Date | October 21,2020 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | R is a powerful language for data analysis. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of R, including language fundamentals, basic programming and data visualization. A few examples of using R to process real-life data will be presented as well.
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Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click here |
4. October 28,2020: Introduction to Python
| Topic | Introduction to Python |
| Date | October 28,2020 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | Python is a high-level programming language, easy to learn yet extremely powerful. This training will provide an introduction to programming in Python. The subjects include basic Python syntax, Python classes used in object-oriented programming. Basic Python modules for scientific computing and plotting will also be introduced. During the training, simple Python programs will be provided for demonstration.
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| Registration | Click here |
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Past Tutorials
We offer many tutorial sessions for our users both on campus and online. The training topics include but are not limited to:
- Introduction to Linux
- HPC user environment
- Version control with git
- Pythong and R programming
- Deep learning basics
- Parallel programming
To read descriptions or access PDF's of the slides from past tutorials Past Tutorials.