Hands-on, Interactive Tutorials
Learn new computational software, tools, and workflows. Trainings take place in university computer labs with software preinstalled, so all you need to do is show up!
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- Host a short course or workshop
- Help with a workshop
- Volunteer With Software Carpentry
Email a résumé to training@cse.illinois.edu with subject “TA Application” including a short cover letter about your interests and skills. Learn more here.
Campus Cluster Program
The Illinois Campus Cluster provides access to computing and data storage resources and frees you from the hassle of administering your own compute cluster. Any individual, research team, or campus unit can invest in compute nodes or storage disks or pay a fee for on-demand use of compute cycles or storage space. Staffing and shared infrastructure fees are partially subsidized by campus to help keep your costs as low as possible!
High-performance computers have become essential to research in many disciplines across the Illinois campus, from astronomy to biology to chemistry on through the alphabet to zoology. The Illinois Campus Cluster is a campus-wide resource that meets this need for research computing cycles.
Campus Cluster User Guide
Campus Cluster HPC Training Videos
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Upcoming Events for Spring 2019
Software Carpentry |
The Hacker Within |
Interactive Learning Fridays |
Data Carpentry (Hesitant Data Scientist)January 10 – 11, 2019 This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Lunch Provided Registration Required |
Kickoff MeetingFebruary 6, 2019 Increase your computational skills Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
The Linux ShellFebruary 8, 2019 Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Bring your Laptop |
Data Carpentry (Genomics)January 31 – February 1, 2019 This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Lunch Provided Registration Required |
Posting to Git and Heritage Code ReviewFebruary 20, 2019 12:00pm – 1:00pm We will learn how to post tutorials and Jupyter notebooks to the THW Github. We will also review old code from various THW members and discuss what could have been improved on. Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
How to Use Git for Your Code and in Your ResearchFebruary 22, 2019 Are you tired of sending around dozens of versions of a paper with edits? How about fixing the same bug in your code that has mysteriously reappeared? Version control can greatly simplify your research workflow, allowing you to more easily track changes, authorship, and merge various edits/contributions from your collaborators. In this workshop you will experiment with the basics of git to help mange a range of files, from code for your data analysis to text-based files for your research papers. You’ll also learn a bit about how using version control will make your research more transparent, reproducible, and sustainable. Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Registration Required Bring your Laptop |
R + SQLFebruary 7 – 8, 2019 This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Lunch Provided Registration Required |
TBAMarch 6, 2019 Increase your computational skills Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
Science Beyond Spreadsheets: Computer Clusters and SupercomputersMarch 8, 2019 This hands-on workshop is for those interested in utilizing the enormous computing capabilities of computer clusters and supercomputers for their research. You will learn everything you need to know: how to connect, transfer data, build and run applications, and more! Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Bring your Laptop |
PythonFebruary 14 – 15, 2019 This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Lunch Provided Registration Required |
TBAMarch 20, 2019 Increase your computational skills Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
Visualization with PythonApril 12, 2019 Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Bring your Laptop |
Women in CodingApril 4 – 5, 2019 No programming experience required. All skill levels. Participants should bring their own laptops to work on—if you require one on loan, please let us know ahead of time and we’ll see if we can help locate one. Hands-on workshops that start at the basics and teach you how to: ➔ organize your research computationally ➔ automate repetitive tasks ➔ make your research reproducible ➔ help other researchers access your work ➔ use your work collaboratively Question regarding the workshop can be directed to Samniqueka Halsey (shals3@illinois.edu). Lunch Provided Registration Required |
TBAApril 3, 2019 Increase your computational skills Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
PyTorch for Fast and Easy Machine LearningApril 26, 2019 PyTorch allows you to easily train and run machine learning models. It uses standard Python methods for writing code, so it’s both simple and powerful. We will cover the core automatic differentiation capabilities of PyTorch, training deep neural networks, using GPUs and parallel computation, managing training and test data, saving and loading models, and visualizing training progress. We will assume a good knowledge of Python and NumPy, and basic knowledge of machine learning with neural nets. Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Bring your Laptop |
Instructor TrainingMay 2 – 3, 2019 This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Lunch Provided Registration Required |
TBAApril 17, 2019 Increase your computational skills Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
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TBAMay 1, 2019 Increase your computational skills Open to Undergrad and Grad Students Free Lunch Provided |
Past Events
CSE Training on GitHub (includes materials from previous courses)