Office of Research Computing

ORC Workshops for Fall 2025

The ORC Workshop series for Fall 2025 have started. All sessions will run on Thursdays between 11:00AM-12:00PM. The first workshop on The SLURM Scheduler on the HOPPER Cluster and is planned for Thursday, 09/11/2025, at 11:00AM. All those using the cluster and planning to use the cluster are invited to attend.  

Workshop Registration/Join Details:  

Details on joining the Workshop sessions can be found on this form: https://forms.office.com/r/LqPA5x519N.  

ORC Workshops for Fall 2025  
ORC Webinars Description Date Presenter 
Introduction to Slurm and Running Jobs in Batch Mode This workshop will be a detailed introduction to the cluster environment and using the job scheduler, SLURM, to run jobs interactively and in batch mode from the shell.  Thurs 11-Sep ORC
Open OnDemand: 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. Thurs 18-Sep ORC
Running VS Code from OOD This workshop will cover correctly connecting to the cluster and using Visual Studio, both locally installed and the app from OOD Thurs 18-Sep ORC
Managing Python Packages with Conda and Python Virtual Environments 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.  Thurs 25-Sep ORC   
Running GPU Jobs Efficiently on the Cluster This workshop covers an introduction to the different GPU resources we have on the cluster and how to set up, run and monitor your GPU jobs in the most efficient way. Thurs 02-Oct ORC
Running and Monitoring 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 Thurs 09-Oct ORC 
Running R on Hopper/ Biostats Workflows Running jobs and using R on the Cluster Thurs 16-Oct ORC 
MySQL on Hopper Thurs 23-Oct ORC

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 [email protected] if you have any questions.