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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The schedule for the Fall 2020 HPC Training is available at
<a href="http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php">http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our next HPC training will be held on Wednesday, October 14 at
<span style="color:red">9:00 AM</span>. Due to concern about the COVID-19 pandemic, all training sessions are Zoom online events from 9:00AM to 11:00AM. The sessions will be recorded for later review.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday, October 14, 2020: Open OnDemand: Interactive HPC via the Web<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 its features, including Jupyter Notebook and RStudio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prerequisites:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> LSU HPC account, Some knowledge of using HPC is assumed but not required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday, October 21, 2019: Introduction to R</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laptop (Linux/Mac/Windows) with R installed. R can be downloaded from
<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/">https://cran.r-project.org/</a>, RStudio is acceptable but not recommended for this training.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LONI or LSU HPC account, SSH client such as Putty/MobaXterm for Windows, Basic understanding of a programming language is assumed but not required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please visit
<a href="http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php">http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php</a> for more details and register using the link provided. Users will be provided with a zoom link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the
system requirements at <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux">https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Feng Chen, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">Manager of User Services</span><br>
<span style="background:white">High Performance Computing</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Louisiana State University</span><br>
<span style="background:white">329 Frey Computing Services Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803</span><br>
<span style="background:white">office 225-578-2924 </span><br>
</span><a href="mailto:fchen14@lsu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#451D7C;background:white">fchen14@lsu.edu</span></a>
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