The Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium, with the support of UBC’s Advanced Research Computing team, is pleased to offer a series of bioinformatics workshops designed to assist beginner and intermediate level attendees.  Specifically designed with graduate students in mind, our workshop series will complement existing training resources on campus and assist trainees in building competencies in computing and data analysis.

Our second workshop is now available for registration. The registration deadline is 12 noon on Friday, May 14th, 2021.  Registration is expected to be competitive, and you will be informed of your successful registration on Tuesday, May 18th, 2021.  A waitlist will be maintained, with additional sessions added in the near future.

Instructor: David Levy-Booth (SBC) and Jiarui (Jerry) Li (ARC)
Dates: Monday, June 14th and Thursday, June 17th, 2021
Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m
Participants: 20
Target Audience: Trainees and researchers that require larger-scale data processing to further their research goals. Some previous experience with Linux/UNIX is expected (ie, attending Workshop 1).
Participants: 20

System Requirements: Windows, Linux or Mac computer with pre-installed terminal and remote file browser (instructions will be provided by email prior to the workshop). 
Software Requirements: Zoom and Slack (channel to be provided).

Prior to the workshop, participants will be provided with cluster credentials by UBC's Advanced Research Computing.

Agenda

Day 1

• What is a compute cluster and why would I use them?
• Logging on to a remote HPC system
• What is a scheduler and how is it used?
• Basics of bash scripting
• How do I run an interactive job?
• How do I load and unload software modules?
• How do I get my files onto the cluster?
• How do I choose the correct resources for my jobs?
• How to start, end and check on a job?

Day 2

• Review of Day 1 material
• Basics of parallel computing
• Hands-on practice exercises