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Upcoming 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 by various satellite sites, there WILL NOT be a direct to desktop option for this event. Attendees should get their own laptop to follow the workshop and hands-on session.
Registration closes on Monday, January 5 at 11AM Eastern time.
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 anyone registering for this event or for any ACCESS accounts going forward, please take a moment to check your profile - https://allocations.access-ci.org/profile
Please ensure that your email address is that of your academic institution and that your Academic Status, Citizenship and Country of Residence are all filled in.
For further instructions to create ACCESS ID: https://rci.research.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2025/11/ACCESS-Account-Creation.pdf
Map to venue: https://www.ucf.edu/location/partnership-2/
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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 January 7, 2026
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
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 by various satellite sites, there WILL NOT be a direct to desktop option for this event. Attendees should get their own laptop to follow the workshop and hands-on session.
Registration closes on Monday, January 5 at 11AM Eastern time.
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 anyone registering for this event or for any ACCESS accounts going forward, please take a moment to check your profile - https://allocations.access-ci.org/profile
Please ensure that your email address is that of your academic institution and that your Academic Status, Citizenship and Country of Residence are all filled in.
For further instructions to create ACCESS ID: https://rci.research.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2025/11/ACCESS-Account-Creation.pdf
Map to venue: https://www.ucf.edu/location/partnership-2/
===========================================
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 January 8, 2026
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
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 may be.
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. The goal is to share ideas and practices that can be used to have a smoother experience while performing computational research. These can be considered equivalent to the basic lab skills one is introduced to and trained on for a smooth and safe lab experience.
Prerequisites: There are no specific prerequisites. Learners should be participating or intending to participate in scientific research that involves computing.
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.
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 54-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 Glenn Martin, Ph.D., Kei Long
Join Ben Keene and Nandan Tandon of the Office of Research's Cyberinfrastructure Facilitation team as they discuss how the National Science Foundation's ACCESS program can provide you with free computational resources for your research. NSF has granted $52 million over five years to advanced computational resource providers, and has developed an ecosystem to assist and accelerate computational research. Watch this webinar to learn more about the ACCESS ecosystem, what resources they provide, and how their team can assist in onboarding UCF researchers to ACCESS resources.
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 Ben Keene, 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
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
This workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of using Parallel Processing within the context of High-Performance Computing (HPC) with R. Attendees will gain an understanding of the benefits and limitations of HPC, learn about the available provider platforms, and practice logging in and running jobs through both Open OnDemand (OOD) and from the Command Line Interface (CLI). The session emphasizes practical skills with guided demonstrations, including performance improvements using algorithms such as K-Means and Random Forest. Through multiple hands-on exercises, participants will experience the end-to-end process of starting an interactive session, running R code on an HPC system, and submitting jobs from the command line using Slurm. By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to begin leveraging parallel computing using HPC resources for their own R-based research and data analysis.
- Introduction to HPC in R: benefits, limitations, and use cases
- Brief overview of the HPC provider platform
- Hands-on: logging in and running a simple job with Open OnDemand (OOD)
- Demonstrating HPC performance improvements with K-Means and Random Forest
- Hands-on: running sample R code on HPC after guided walkthrough
- Introduction to Command Line Interface (CLI) and Slurm
- Hands-on: running an R job from CLI with Slurm
Participants will be contacted in advance of the workshop with instructions for creating an ACCESS account. Failing to respond in a timely manner may prevent attendees from being able to work alongside the presenter in real time.
Requirements: Bring your own laptop to follow along during the Hands-on session.
The registration for the workshop will close on 2/12/2026 at 11:59PM to allow time to set-up user accounts.
Presented by Satyar Foroughi