Go here for the latest training workshop content.
The following training workshops resources are available to our users. Older training sessions are kept for reference, however we recommend consulting the latest training workshops for current information on ilifu.
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- Online training 2019
Introductory training April 2023
Introductory Training was held on 4 April 2023:
Topics:
- Introduction to the ilifu research facility services
- Directory structure
- Introduction to software environments
- Using JupyterHub
- Introduction to Slurm
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
Advanced training #1 April 2023
Advanced Training #1 was held on 11 April 2023:
Topics:
- Software environment
- Python virtual environments
- Using R containers and R-Studio
- Advanced Slurm usage
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Advanced training #2 April 2023
Advanced Training #2 was held on 18 April 2023:
Topics:
- Parallelism on the cluster
- Resource allocation guidelines
Advanced training #3 April 2023
Advanced Training #3 was held on 2 May 2023:
Topics:
- Data transfers
- Data management guidelines
- General guidelines
- Radio Astronomy data management
- SARAO Archive transfer
- CARTA
Download Presentation I (includes Nextflow resource links)
Download Presentation II
Introductory training September 2022
Introductory Training was held on 13 September 2022:
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Advanced training #1 September 2022
Advanced Training #1 was held on 20 September 2022:
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Download Presentation III
Advanced training #2 September 2022
Advanced Training #2 was held on 27 September 2022:
Introductory training March 2022
Introductory Training was held 29 March 2022:
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Advanced training #1 April 2022
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training #1 was held on 5 April 2022
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Download Presentation III
Advanced training #2 April 2022
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training #2 was held on 12 April 2022
Basic training September 2021
Basic Training was held on 7 September 2021:
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Advance TRaining #1 September 2021
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training 1 was held on 14 September 2021
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Download Presentation III
Advance Training #2 September 2021
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training 2 was held on 21 September 2021
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Basic training March 2021
A User Training Workshop – Basic Training was held on 30 March 2021:
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- Introduction I
- Introduction to the ilifu research facility services
- Directory structure
- Singularity containers, modules and other software
- Using JupyterHub (demo)
- Introduction II
- Introduction to SLURM
- Best Practices
Advanced training March 2021
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training was held on 13 April 2021
Download Introduction I
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
- Introduction I
- Introduction II
- Modules and python virtualenv
- Using R containers and R-Studio
- Introduction III
- Advanced SLURM usage
- Data Transfers
- Astronomy visualisation using CARTA
- Best Practices
Basic training 2020
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 2020
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training was held on 22 April 2020
- 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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Download Nextflow Introduction
- Jeremy Introduction
- Singularity
- 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:
ilifu online training
Click on the time markers below for more on specific subjects:
- 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