Office of Research Computing

ORC Workshops For Fall 2024

We are excited to begin our Workshop series for Fall 2024, the first of which will be on The SLURM Scheduler on the HOPPER Cluster and is planned for this Thursday, 09/19/2024, at 11:00AM -12:00PM. All those using the cluster and planning to use the cluster are invited to attend.  

  
The SLURM Scheduler on the HOPPER Cluster | 09/19/2024 | 11:00AM – 12:00PM EST 
Summary: This workshop will be an introduction to the cluster environment and using the job scheduler, SLURM, to run jobs interactively and in batch mode.   

Workshop Registration/Join Details:  

Registration/Sign in form: https://forms.office.com/r/LqPA5x519N   

Upcoming ORC Workshops for Spring 2024  

Date  Times  Title  Description  
09/26/2024  11:00AM – 12:00PM  Open OnDemand: An Interactive Web Dashboard for Working on the Cluster  This workshop will be a detailed introduction to the Open OnDemand web dashboard that can be used to run apps and other jobs on the cluster interactively.  
09/26/2024  11:00AM – 12:00PM  Running VS Code from Open OnDemand  This workshop will go over how to correctly use VS Code from the Open OnDemand dashboard while working on the cluster.  
10/03/2024  11:00AM -12:00PM  Managing Python Packages with Conda and Virtual Environments on the Cluster  This workshop will go into the different ways python packages can be managed in the cluster environment using conda and python virtual environments both in batch mode from the command line and with Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Lab on the cluster.  
10/10/2024 11:00AM -12:00PM  Gaussian on Hopper This workshop will cover running Gaussian on the cluster using both CPUs and GPUS with Slurm and from OOD with GaussView 
10/17/2024  11:00AM -12:00PM  Running GPU Jobs Efficiently on the Cluster  This workshop covers an introduction to the different gpu resources we have available on the cluster and how to set up and monitor your GPU runs on these resources in the most efficient way.  
10/24/2024 11:00AM -12:00PM  Pytorch DDP: Multi GPU Jobs on the Cluster This workshop will go over running and monitoring multi-gpu jobs based on Python Multi GPU training with DDP 
10/31/2024 11:00AM – 12:00PM using Gurobi on the Hopper Cluster This workshop will cover running jobs and using Gurobi on the Cluster 

Upcoming ORC events and workshops are normally posted on our website here while the workshop series and other training resources details can be found on our Training pages here.   

Please contact us at orchelp@gmu.edu if you have any questions.