{"id":4794,"date":"2014-01-30T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:13:46","slug":"ccv-hosting-workshop-series-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2014\/01\/30\/ccv-hosting-workshop-series-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"CCV hosting workshop series in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This February, the Center for Computation and Visualization at <a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/\">Brown University<\/a> will host a series of workshops covering basic topics relevant to high-performance and research computing.<\/p>\n<p>All workshops will be held in the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dsl\/\">Digital Scholarship Lab<\/a> @ Rockefeller Library on the Brown campus at 10 Prospect Street, Providence, RI.<\/p>\n<p>Please sign up for any number of workshops through this interest form: <a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/go\/ccv-workshops\">brown.edu\/go\/ccv-workshops<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workshop schedule and sample topics to be covered include:<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, February 11, 2013<\/h3>\n<p><strong>0900-1130 Introduction To Unix and Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* What are operating systems? Why use Linux?<\/p>\n<p>* Connecting remotely to a Linux system<\/p>\n<p>* Layout of the file system<\/p>\n<p>* Users, groups, and permissions<\/p>\n<p>* The command prompt and basic commands<\/p>\n<p>* Editing text<\/p>\n<p><strong>1230-1500 Automating Tasks Through Scripting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Pipes and filters<\/p>\n<p>* Shell utilities: grep, find, awk, sed<\/p>\n<p>* Matching text with regular expressions<\/p>\n<p>* Bash scripting<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, February 12, 2013<\/h3>\n<p><strong>0900-1100 Effective Use of HPC Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Basic computer systems and HPC architecture<\/p>\n<p>* Types of jobs: Parallel vs serial vs threaded<\/p>\n<p>* Requesting the right resources for your job<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, February 13, 2013<\/h3>\n<p><strong>0900-1130 Data Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Data management plans for grant proposals<\/p>\n<p>* Conventions for naming files and directories<\/p>\n<p>* Compression and archiving: zip, tar, gzip, bzip<\/p>\n<p>* Transferring files with scp and rsync<\/p>\n<p>* Revision control with git<\/p>\n<p><strong>1230-1500 Introduction to 2D Visualization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Importing and plotting data in Python and Matlab<\/p>\n<p>* Producing 2D plots for publication<\/p>\n<p>* Basic InfoVis concepts: color, spatial layout, human perception<\/p>\n<h3>For all workshops:<\/h3>\n<p>* A laptop is HIGHLY recommended to follow along with the exercises and examples.<\/p>\n<p>* The workshops are part of our HPC Basic Certificate Program, but participation in the Certificate Program is NOT required for participation in the workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}