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IT support for research: online workshops / webinars (R, HPC, GitLab)

A new round of R online training will be available in mid-March. In addition, online webinars on the HPC (High Performance Computing) platform and GitLab service are also in plan.

Details of the online workshops / webinars:

Basic R Programming for Beginners
Date: 17 (Tue), 20 (Fri) & 24 (Tue) Mar
Time: 14:30 – 16:30
Pre-requisite: Basic programming concepts
Course Outline:
  • Introduction to R
  • IDE tools for R with Anaconda
  • Variables & Types
  • Basic Operators
  • Basic String Operations
  • Conditions
  • Loops
  • Functions
  • Data Structure
  • Data Processing with DataFrame
  • Modules & Packages
  • Anaconda Installation
  • Basic Statistics Basic
  • Data Visualization with ggplot
Medium of Instruction: English

How to Work with Pilot HPC Platform
Date: 26 Mar (Thu)
Time: 14:30 – 17:00
Pre-requisite: Basic programming concepts
Course Outline:
  • Introduction to Pilot HPC Platform
  • Account Application
  • Resources Available
  • Core Operations of Using Pilot HPC Platform
  • Parallel Programming
  • Examples of MPI with Python
Medium of Instruction: English

Use of GitLab
Date: 31 Mar (Tue)
Time: 14:30 – 17:00
Pre-requisite: Basic programming concepts
Course Outline:
  • Introduction to GitLab Service for Research
  • Basic Operations of Git (Clone, push and pull)
  • Branching of Git
  • Managing Users & Groups
  • Project Permission
  • Trunk Based Development
  • Pilot HPC Platform & GitLab Integration Examples
Medium of Instruction: English

All workshops / webinars will be conducted via Microsoft Teams Meeting and participants can join from remote locations. Interested research students and staff can join the workshops via the MS Teams communication channel mentioned above.

 

How to join workshops / webinar on MS Teams

  • The workshop invitation will be sent in the communication channel. Click the workshop invitation to check out details of the workshop.

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  • You may click the +Add to calendar icon to add the event to your calendar. Or you may just select Join at the scheduled time to join the workshop.

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