Training

Basic | Advanced | Working: 4 October 2019

Basic training

A User Training Workshop - Basic Training was held on 8 April 2020:

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• Jeremy's Introduction
• Introduction to the ilifu research facility services
• Directory structure
• Singularity containers and other software
• Accessing the ilifu services (demo)
• Using JupyterHub (demo)
• Jordan's Introduction
• Introduction to SLURM
• Submitting a job on SLURM
• Interactive sessions on SLURM
• SLURM demo
• Data transfers
• Best Practices
• Questions

Advanced training

A User Training Workshop - Advanced Training was held on 22 April 2020

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• Introduction
• Introduction to SLURM
• Advanced SLURM usage
• Parallelism on the cluster
• Pipelines (demo)
• Miscellaneous: symlinks and aliases
• Data Transfers: Globus Online
• Introduction to Astronomy visualisation using CARTA
• Questions

Advanced Training #2 15th May 2020

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• Jeremy Introduction
• Singularity
  •   Sourcing a container
  •   Building a container
• Creating a custom kernel for JupyterHub
• Python virtualenv
• Dane Introduction (miscellaneous: modules and ssh config)
• Using R containers and R-Studio
• Using Nextflow (Bioinformatics - Gerrit Botha)
• Astronomy visualisation using CARTA
• SARAO Archive (Astronomy)

Online training

A training workshop was held on 4 October 2019 to help users to use the research cloud services effectively. Video of the workshop is available below:

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• 00:00:00 - Jeremy's introduction
• 00:04:28 - ilifu computing environment, structure and services
• 00:10:20 - Logging in/access
• 00:12:17 - Directory structure
• 00:19:17 - Software/Containers
• 00:31:54 - Jupyter
• 00:43:20 - Jordan's introduction 
• 00:45:38 - Data transfers
• 00:55:13 - Parallelism
• 00:59:47 - SLURM
• 01:17:31 - Pipelines
• 01:24:42 - Visualisation
• 01:29:27 - Questions

Presentations

The following presentations are also available for download:

ilifu Research Cloud services: Jeremy Smith - ilifu System Administrator/Technical Support University of Cape Town 

ilifu Online Training: Dr Jordan Collier - ilifu Support Astronomer, IDIA, Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town Adjunct Fellow, Western Sydney University