Description:

The Topics in Research Computing Series is a six-session workshop series showing you how to scale up your computational research in ways you might not have thought possible.

Sessions meet on Thursdays at 1 p.m. CDT; most are one and a half hours long. 

Navigating Quest
This 90-minute interactive workshop builds on the introductory materials presented in our Introduction To Quest video series. During this workshop you’ll be guided through a hands-on experience on Quest, Northwestern’s High Performance Computing cluster. You will use Quest to solve exercises, review how to submit jobs and troubleshoot them.   

Prerequistes:
Before attending this workshop, researchers new to Quest should:   
•Apply for a Quest allocation. We recommend “Research Allocation I” if you are new to Quest. If your lab has a joint Quest allocation, you can also apply to join that allocation. 
• Watch the Introduction To Quest video series to get an overview of the system, learn how to submit jobs, and become familiar with best practices. To learn more about Quest, see About Quest. 
• Become familiar with Unix command line: see our Intro Command Line and Bash Scripting workshops and check Online Resource Guide for learning basic command line skills.

Description:

The Topics in Research Computing Series is a six-session workshop series showing you how to scale up your computational research in ways you might not have thought possible.

Sessions meet on Thursdays at 1 p.m. CDT; most are one and a half hours long. 

Quest on Demand
In this 90-minute workshop, we introduce a new way for the Quest community to interface with Quest, Quest OnDemand. This web portal provides a single, user-friendly access point to Quest, leveraging the open-source, NSF-funded tool Open OnDemand. Quest OnDemand delivers the ability to submit jobs, view and interact with data, run applications, and access Quest compute resources in a way that does not require knowledge of the Linux command line. In addition, it will provide a much easier way for you to run several IDE or Graphical User Interface applications on Quest, including Jupyter Notebook, VS Code Server, RStudio Server, Stata, Matlab, Mathematica, Lumerical, Abaqus, and ANSYS. 

Prerequistes:
Before attending this workshop, researchers new to Quest should:   
•Apply for a Quest allocation. We recommend “Research Allocation I” if you are new to Quest. If your lab has a joint Quest allocation, you can also apply to join that allocation. 
• Watch the Introduction To Quest video series to get an overview of the system, learn how to submit jobs, and become familiar with best practices. To learn more about Quest, see About Quest. 
• Become familiar with Unix command line: see our Intro Command Line and Bash Scripting workshops and check Online Resource Guide for learning basic command line skills.

Description:

The Topics in Research Computing Series is a six-session workshop series showing you how to scale up your computational research in ways you might not have thought possible.

Sessions meet on Thursdays at 1 p.m. CDT; most are one and a half hours long. 

R on Quest
This 90-minute remote workshop demonstrates different options for using R and RStudio on Quest. We will demonstrate using RStudio to work interactively from the Analytics Nodes, Quest OnDemand, and within an interactive job using FastX3. We will also highlight the ability to use R outside of RStudio, how to submit jobs that run R scripts, and the differences between writing a script versus working from a notebook.  

Prerequisites: Familiarity with R.

Description:

The Topics in Research Computing Series is a six-session workshop series showing you how to scale up your computational research in ways you might not have thought possible.

Sessions meet on Thursdays at 1 p.m. CDT; most are one and a half hours long. 

GitHub Actions
Ever wanted to automate specific tasks every time you changed your code in GitHub? Learn how GitHub actions in this 90-minute workshop will enable you to automatically build and publish documentation, automatically publish your code to the package manager of your choice (PyPi, Anaconda, Docker, etc), and automatically run unit tests. GitHub actions allow researchers to utilize the principle of continuous integration in the development of their code for free!  

Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with GitHub and git. 

Description:

The Topics in Research Computing Series is a six-session workshop series showing you how to scale up your computational research in ways you might not have thought possible.

Sessions meet on Thursdays at 1 p.m. CDT; most are one and a half hours long. 

Introduction to LaTeX
Do you get tired of formatting your documents? This 90-minute workshop will present LaTeX, a typesetting program where you write in a plain text environment. It includes features to create production/publication-quality technical and scientific documents and presentations from plain text content. LaTeX interpreter formats the spacing, equations, graphics, tables, references, and many more throughout your documents with simple commands. This introductory workshop will cover basic formatting commands for various elements of your documents and familiarize you with development environments for personal and collaborative LaTeX writing, such as Overleaf.  

Prerequisites: This workshop is appropriate for all researchers; no prior knowledge of LaTeX is required. Please bring your laptop to follow along; software installation instructions will be provided before the workshop.