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.
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- Online training 2019
Introductory training September 2022
Introductory Training was held on 13 September 2022:
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 September 2022
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training #1 was held on 20 September 2022:
Topics:
- Software environment
- Python virtual environments
- Using R containers and R-Studio
- Advanced Slurm usage
- Data Transfers
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
Download Presentation III
Advanced training #2 September 2022
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training #2 was held on 27 September 2022:
Topics:
- Parallelism on the cluster
- Resource allocation guidelines
Introductory training March 2022
Introductory Training was held 29 March 2022:
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
Advanced training #1 April 2022
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training #1 was held on 5 April 2022
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
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:
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
Advance TRaining #1 September 2021
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training 1 was held on 14 September 2021
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
Download Presentation III
Advance Training #2 September 2021
A User Training Workshop – Advanced Training 2 was held on 21 September 2021
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
Basic training March 2021
A User Training Workshop – Basic Training was held on 30 March 2021:
Download Presentation I
Download Presentation II
- 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:
Download Presentation I
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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