[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: Parallel computing with R

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

The schedule for the Spring 2017 HPC Training is available at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php.

Our next HPC training will be held on Wednesday, March 22 at 9:00 AM in 307 Frey Computing Service Center and broadcast through WebEx for remote users.

Note that all HPC training will start at 9:00 AM.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017: Parallel computing with R
R is a widely used language in data analysis with rich features. Its performance, however, is limited by the fact that it is single-threaded. On the other hand, to take advantage of the processing power of HPC clusters, computer programs need to be able to run in parallel. In this tutorial, we will focus on how to use the "parallel" package in R and a few related packages to parallelize and enhance the performance of R programs.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of R is assumed but not required.

Next HPC training:

Tuesday, March 29, 2017: Intermediate Python Programming
Python is a great general-purpose, powerful programming language and has also become a powerful environment for scientific and engineering computations. This tutorial will focus on popular Python modules numpy, matplotlib and scipy to get users familiar with building quick Python real world computing solutions. This section can also serve as a quick crash training on Python for the upcoming tutorial on Machine Learning.
Prerequisites: No prior Python programming knowledge is assumed but some experience in a programming language will be useful.

Please visit http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php for more details and register using the link provided.
Users who plan on joining remotely will be provided with a WebEx Link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the system requirements at https://grok.lsu.edu/Categories.aspx?parentCategoryId=3381.

Please distribute to faculty, staff and students that might be interested.

Thanks,

Feng Chen, PhD
IT Consultant
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University
329 Frey Computing Services Center, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
office 225-578-2924
fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>

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