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.