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Introduction to the Flux cluster and batch computing
Overview This workshop will provide a brief overview of the components of the Flux Cluster. The main body of the workshop will cover the resource manager and scheduler, creating submissions…
Introduction to the Linux Command Line
This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command…
Open Source GIS
This workshop will cover introductory GIS concepts and techniques using open source tools. We will use QGIS and R and learn the basics of GIS by solving a number of…
Introduction to the Flux cluster and batch computing
Overview This workshop will provide a brief overview of the components of the Flux Cluster. The main body of the workshop will cover the resource manager and scheduler, creating submissions…
Intro to SQL
Ever want to know how to communicate with a database? You need to know SQL, a standard programming language for working with relational database management systems in data warehouses or…
Android Application Development: An Overview
Mobile app development is one of the biggest new industries of the last decade. As of 2017, Google and Apple (the creators of Android and iOS, respectively) confirmed a combined…
Compile or not compile — what is this question?
We will discuss the concepts of compiled vs interpreted (scripted) computer languages, and their comparative strengths and weaknesses in various scenarios. In the course of the discussion, the basic relevant…
Advanced batch computing on the Flux cluster
Overview This course will cover some more advanced topics in cluster computing on the U-M Flux Cluster. Topics to be covered include a review of common parallel programming models and…
Introduction to the campus Hadoop cluster
This course will cover 4 areas: Logging into the cluster How to upload your data How to run a job How to get your data from the cluster Prerequisites: Workshop…
Intro to OpenMP with C/C++: Shared-memory parallel computing
OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) provides an interface to implement shared-memory parallelism in C, C++, and Fortran code. Shared-memory parallelism relies on all processors having access to the same shared memory (e.g. your…
