Events

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to present the “MPI Programming” workshop.  

This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are condensed to accommodate multiple time zones but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing. 

This will be an IN-PERSON event hosted at UCF, a Satellite Site. The speakers will be on Zoom. There WILL NOT be a direct to desktop option for this event. You must bring your laptop to the sessions with MobaXterm application installed. 

How to Register  
Interested applicants must have an ACCESS ID. If you do not have an ACCESS ID, please visit https://operations.access-ci.org/identity/new-user.  

For further instructions to create ACCESS ID: https://rci.research.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2024/12/ACCESS-Account-Creation-Workshop.pdf  

Satellite Site Location: University of Central Florida  

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Location: 
Research I, Room 101 (For directions: https://www.ucf.edu/location/research-1/)  
Note: Enter venue from the ENG side doors  

Visitor Parking Information: 
https://parking.ucf.edu/permits/visitor-permits/  

Wi-Fi: 
UCF affiliated attendees can use "UCF_WPA2" using their NID. 
Visitors can use “UCF_Guest” network (https://guest-wireless.it.ucf.edu/) 
 

Tentative Agenda for Tuesday, August 12, 2025  
11:00 AM Welcome  
11:15 AM Computing Environment  
12:00 PM Intro to Parallel Computing  
1:00 PM Lunch Break (Lunch is not provided)  
2:00 PM Introduction to MPI  
3:30 PM Introductory Exercises  
4:10 PM Intro Exercises Review 
4:15 PM Scalable Programming: Laplace Code  
5:00 PM Adjourn/Laplace Exercises 

Tentative Agenda for Wednesday, August 13, 2025  
11:00 AM Advanced MPI  
1:00 PM Lunch Break (Lunch is not provided)  
2:00 PM Laplace Review  
2:30 PM Outro to Parallel Computing  
3:15 PM Parallel Debugging and Profiling Tools 
3:30 PM Exercises  
4:30 PM Adjourn

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to present the “MPI Programming” workshop.  

This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to MPI programming. Both days are condensed to accommodate multiple time zones but packed with useful information and lab exercises. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing. 

This will be an IN-PERSON event hosted at UCF, a Satellite Site. The speakers will be on Zoom. There WILL NOT be a direct to desktop option for this event. You must bring your laptop to the sessions with MobaXterm application installed. 

How to Register  
Interested applicants must have an ACCESS ID. If you do not have an ACCESS ID, please visit https://operations.access-ci.org/identity/new-user.  

For further instructions to create ACCESS ID: https://rci.research.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2024/12/ACCESS-Account-Creation-Workshop.pdf  

Satellite Site Location: University of Central Florida  

=========================================== 

Location: 
Research I, Room 101 (For directions: https://www.ucf.edu/location/research-1/)  
Note: Enter venue from the ENG side doors  

Visitor Parking Information: 
https://parking.ucf.edu/permits/visitor-permits/  

Wi-Fi: 
UCF affiliated attendees can use "UCF_WPA2" using their NID. 
Visitors can use “UCF_Guest” network (https://guest-wireless.it.ucf.edu/) 
 

Tentative Agenda for Tuesday, August 12, 2025  
11:00 AM Welcome  
11:15 AM Computing Environment  
12:00 PM Intro to Parallel Computing  
1:00 PM Lunch Break (Lunch is not provided)  
2:00 PM Introduction to MPI  
3:30 PM Introductory Exercises  
4:10 PM Intro Exercises Review 
4:15 PM Scalable Programming: Laplace Code  
5:00 PM Adjourn/Laplace Exercises 

Tentative Agenda for Wednesday, August 13, 2025  
11:00 AM Advanced MPI  
1:00 PM Lunch Break (Lunch is not provided)  
2:00 PM Laplace Review  
2:30 PM Outro to Parallel Computing  
3:15 PM Parallel Debugging and Profiling Tools 
3:30 PM Exercises  
4:30 PM Adjourn

Computational research can analyze models and/or data to reach new conclusions in faster ways or more complex scenarios. UCF has a 8,000+ core cluster for general-purpose computation for research across many fields of academic work, and a 132-node GPU cluster for specialized computation.

This workshop will review capabilities of the UCF Advanced Research Computing Center in general, with a focus on the two clusters (known as Stokes and Newton). Storage system usage, job scheduling, account balancing, example slurm script and job submission will be covered with a demonstration. The demonstration will include examples of job that uses only CPU or GPU on the clusters. A brief introduction to the national (ACCESS) as well as state HPC cluster (HiPerGator) which are outside of UCF campus will also be shared.

This event is not being recorded. Any materials provided by the presenter will be sent to all registrants by the end of the second business day after the conclusion of the event. Please email ResearchITEvents@ucf.edu to request access to the materials two business days after the completion of the event if you did not register.

Presented by Kei Long, Glenn Martin, Ph.D.

This workshop is targeted at a broad audience of researchers who want to learn how to be more efficient and effective in their data analysis and computing, whatever their career stage.
The lesson is inspired by and based on the paper, Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing (Wilson et al., 2017): “a set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill”.
These practices encompass data management, programming, collaborating with colleagues, organizing projects, tracking work, and writing manuscripts.
Prerequisites: There are no specific prerequisites. Learners should be participating or intending to participate in scientific research that involves computing. A basic knowledge of a coding language will help with the section on code & software.

This event is not being recorded. Any materials provided by the presenter will be sent to all registrants by the end of the second business day after the conclusion of the event. Please email ResearchITEvents@ucf.edu to request access to the materials two business days after the completion of the event if you did not register.

Presented by Nandan Tandon, Ph.D.

Learn the basics of Git (https://www.git-scm.com/) and version control using the command line in this hands-on workshop. Whether you're working on a coding project alone or with other people, version control can save you time and effort.

This workshop is intended for new or novice Git users. Intermediate and advanced Git workshops are hosted periodically during Spring and Fall semesters. Please visit our events page (https://rci.research.ucf.edu/events) to view additional upcoming Git training sessions.

To participate in the hands-on lab during the session, you will need to provide your own computer with a web browser and a reliable internet connection.

This event is not being recorded. Any materials provided by the presenter will be sent to all registrants by the end of the second business day after the conclusion of the event. Please email ResearchITEvents@ucf.edu to request access to the materials two business days after the completion of the event if you did not register.

Presented by: Mark Durbin (https://rci.research.ucf.edu/person/mark-durbin/)

This session will be an in-person session for attendees and the instructor will join on Zoom.

The webinar will include a range of the topics such as:

- Background
- Overleaf and LaTeX Basics
- Creating a new project
- Using Visual Editor
- Editing your project
- Sharing your project
- Adding Images and Tables
- Uploading a bibliography
- Fixing errors
- Sharing your project
- Submitting your project to a journal

Presented by Tom Hejda, Lisa Delmonico

Learn and develop techniques for professional collaborative work using the Git Flow workflow. In this hands-on workshop, we will cover working with remote repositories on GitHub (https://github.com) to push and pull code changes, submit pull requests, and merge branches for your projects using GitHub and the command line.

Attendees should have experience creating repositories, making commits, and using GitHub prior to attending this workshop. The entry-level Git workshop, "Git Version Control for Beginners", will be held prior to the intermediate workshop during this semester. Check the Research Cyberinfrastructure events page (https://rci.research.ucf.edu/events/) for availability of the basic course.

To participate in the hands-on lab during the session, you will need to provide your own computer, and have Git (https://git-scm.com/downloads) installed prior to the start of the session. If you will be attending using a UCF-managed computer, you may not have permissions to install the software yourself; please reach out to your IT team for assistance installing Git well in advance of the event, as the presenter will be unable to assist in installation or troubleshooting before or during the event.

This event is not being recorded. Any materials provided by the presenter will be sent to all registrants by the end of the second business day after the conclusion of the event. Please email ResearchITEvents@ucf.edu to request access to the materials two business days after the completion of the event if you did not register.

Presented by: Mark Durbin (https://rci.research.ucf.edu/person/mark-durbin/)

Data and statistics play an important role in conducting research, yet understanding how to find, analyze, and manage data can be complicated. If you are interested in developing data skills, this session on finding data sources will provide an overview of introductory information to aid you on your path to being a data expert.

The workshop will introduce the basic concepts of data and examples of how it is used in supporting research, including copyright concerns to be aware of. Resources that are applicable in a variety of disciplines will be presented. Data source examples will also highlight open data sources, subscription-based sources available through the UCF Libraries, along with grey literature and preprint sources will be discussed.

Presented by Ven Basco, Rich Gause, Missy Murphey, Sarah Norris