We held a 2-hour HPC workshop last Friday, December 15th.
We arranged an agenda in coordination with the research student at QMUL,
Peter Alexander Lock. It covered the generalities of Linux,
accessing Apocrita, submitting jobs, and HPC commands.
On November 15th, our HPC team organised an event called “Let’s talk about
Linux and HPC”, which focused on giving an overview of HPC at QMUL.
The conference was open to the public and published on Eventbrite.
Approximately 30 people were in attendance between organisers and online or
onsite attendees that came to our 2-hour event in the Engineering building at
the Mile End campus. During the conference, attendees shared opinions, thoughts
and suggestions for future workshops dealing with Linux, Ubuntu and setting up
scripts in more detail. They were able to express themselves with the help of
mentimeter.
The High Performance Computing (HPC) team is keen to spread Linux
and HPC knowledge at Queen Mary University of London.
Keeping in mind our vision to support excellence in research,
our valuable efforts have been fruitful this year.
Our achievements include:
Nowadays, there seems to be an R package for anything and everything. While this
makes starting a project in R seem quick and easy, there are considerations to
take into account that will make your life easier in the long run.
Files quickly proliferate and need to be kept tidy. It is important that
the correct people can access the files, and file systems are well-structured
for easy navigation.
Living with Machines is a funded project at
The Alan Turing Institute (aka the Turing),
bringing together academics from different disciplines, to answer research
questions such as how did historical newspapers tell the political landscape,
how were accidents in factories reported, how did road and settlement names
change, how did people change occupations during the industrial revolution...
The ITSR support team have some changes to R and RStudio on Apocrita in
August 2023. Some action will be required by users, so please read the below
carefully.