This February, the Center for Computation and Visualization at Brown University will host a series of workshops covering basic topics relevant to high-performance and research computing.

All workshops will be held in the Digital Scholarship Lab @ Rockefeller Library on the Brown campus at 10 Prospect Street, Providence, RI.

Please sign up for any number of workshops through this interest form: brown.edu/go/ccv-workshops

The workshop schedule and sample topics to be covered include:

Tuesday, February 11, 2013

0900-1130 Introduction To Unix and Linux

* What are operating systems? Why use Linux?

* Connecting remotely to a Linux system

* Layout of the file system

* Users, groups, and permissions

* The command prompt and basic commands

* Editing text

1230-1500 Automating Tasks Through Scripting

* Pipes and filters

* Shell utilities: grep, find, awk, sed

* Matching text with regular expressions

* Bash scripting

Wednesday, February 12, 2013

0900-1100 Effective Use of HPC Resources

* Basic computer systems and HPC architecture

* Types of jobs: Parallel vs serial vs threaded

* Requesting the right resources for your job

Thursday, February 13, 2013

0900-1130 Data Management

* Data management plans for grant proposals

* Conventions for naming files and directories

* Compression and archiving: zip, tar, gzip, bzip

* Transferring files with scp and rsync

* Revision control with git

1230-1500 Introduction to 2D Visualization

* Importing and plotting data in Python and Matlab

* Producing 2D plots for publication

* Basic InfoVis concepts: color, spatial layout, human perception

For all workshops:

* A laptop is HIGHLY recommended to follow along with the exercises and examples.

* The workshops are part of our HPC Basic Certificate Program, but participation in the Certificate Program is NOT required for participation in the workshops.