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Current Training Schedule: Spring 2024

Info

Please note the location for your selected class. We are offering both in-person and virtual classes this year.

Important note: for virtual classes, you should receive an confirmation email from the Harvard Training Portal with a Zoom link. If you do not have your email address on file in the Training Portal, such messages cannot be sent to you. Please contact us for the Zoom meeting details if you do not get a confirmation email.

Class

Date

Time

Location

Training Materials

Registration

Intro to O2

Wednesday,

September 6

February 21,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

Virtual

In-person

User Training github

Registration link

Register here!

O2 Portal - Simplifying the Interaction and Experience of Using an HPC Environment

Wednesday,

September 20

March 6,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

Virtual

User Training github

Registration link

Register here!

Intro to MATLAB

Wednesday,

September 27

March 13,

2023RCBio: easy and quick HPC pipeline builder & runner

2024

10am to 12pm

In-person

User Training github

Registration link

Register here!

Intro to Parallel Computing

Wednesday,

October 4

March 20,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

In-person

User Training github

Registration link

Intro to Parallel Computing

Register here!

Optimizing O2 Jobs

Wednesday,

October 11

April 3,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

In-person

User Training github

Registration link

Optimizing O2 Jobs

Register here!

Intro to Python

Wednesday,

October 18

April 10,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

In-person

User Training github

Registration link

Intermediate O2

Register here!

Troubleshooting O2 Jobs

Wednesday,

October 25

April 24,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

In-person

Virtual

User Training github

Registration link

Register here!

Intro to O2

Wednesday,

November

May 1,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

In-person

Virtual

User Training github

Registration link

Intro to Python

Register here!

Medical Image Processing and Machine Learning Workflow

(Taught by Mathworks)

Wednesday,

November 8

May 15,

2023

2024

10am to 12pm

Virtual

User Training github

Registration link

O2 Portal - Simplifying the Interaction and Experience of Using an HPC Environment

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

In-person

Register here!

RCBio: easy and quick HPC pipeline builder & runner

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

10am to 12pm

Virtual

User Training github

Registration link

Register here!

Additional classes will be added for the Spring Summer semester.

Class Registration Process

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titleRCBio: easy and quick HPC pipeline builder & runner

RCBio is a HPC pipeline runner and workflow tool supported by HMS RC consultants. It was first designed for a Neubiology lab and later opened to all O2 users. RCBio helps users to quickly build and run multiple steps data analysis pipeline on a computer cluster. RCBio automatically keeps logs on all job status and use email to notify user. When re-run the same pipeline, RCBio automatically submit failed jobs and ask user if she/he want to re-run the successful jobs. Here is our wiki page about the RCBio project: RC workflows

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titleTroubleshooting O2 jobs

The “Troubleshooting O2 Jobs” class will teach you how to debug problems when running analyses on the O2 High Performance Compute Cluster. We will examine faulty job submissions to give you hands-on problem solving experience. You will learn how to request appropriate resources and set up your environment to successfully execute your jobs.

Prerequisites:

We recommend taking the “Intro to O2” class prior to “Troubleshooting O2 Jobs”.

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titleWhere Should I Put My Data? Understanding Data Storage at HMS

Description:
As research grows increasingly more complex, arrangements for data storage and transmission of research data require continuous review and modification. Data storage encompasses not only the specific location where data will be kept and managed, but also aspects of data privacy, data security, data organization, and eventual sharing or reuse.

During this short training seminar, we will discuss:

  • How to incorporate storage management into your research workflows

  • Where to properly store data based on how the data will be generated and utilized

  • Highlight the available storage options at Harvard Medical School

  • Learn how to protect your data from unauthorized access or data loss

  • Understand how to incorporate your storage selections into your NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans for grants 

Audience:

Primarily focused on HMS related tools and materials. Open to members of the Longwood Medical Area community, including researchers, faculty and staff.

Prerequisites:

None

Classes sponsored by HMS Research Computing but taught by our partner organizations:

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titleMedical Image Processing and Machine Learning Workflow

Overview

Medical images are obtained from various sources including MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound, and PET scans. Analyzing these images necessitates a comprehensive environment for data access, visualization, processing, and algorithm development. A key challenge involves extracting quantitative features to generate clinically relevant information using advanced techniques like machine learning algorithms.  This presentation will explore radiomics, which captures characteristics not typically visible. Radiomics features can be employed across various medical imaging modalities and applications, enabling the study of associations between imaging features and patient biology, as well as the prediction of clinical outcomes, making radiomics a versatile technique in medical imaging. These features quantify shape, intensity, and texture characteristics within medical images, reducing reliance on subjective interpretation for clinical workflows.

Highlights

In this session, you will learn how to:

  • Import and manage large sets of images without loading them into memory,

  • Extract shape, intensity, and texture radiomics features,

  • Reduce the number of extracted features for classification,  

  • Build a deep learning network to classify images, and

  • Review and analyze the results.

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titleBioGrids Academic Software Platform: No Installation Required

Academic Software Platform (ASP) integrates two major stacks of scientific software: BioGrids stack of ~400 biomedical applications (https://biogrids.org/software/) as well as SBGrid stack of ~500 structural biology applications. Multiple versions of applications are maintained, and users can also easily install the same stack of software on laptops, research workstations or cloud resources, under Linux or Mac OS X operating systems. More information about this resource is available on O2 wiki: https://harvardmed.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/O2/pages/1630994700/Using+Software+Provided+by+BioGrids

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titleParallel Computing with MATLAB - Part 2

MATLAB Parallel Server™ lets you scale MATLAB® programs and Simulink® simulations to clusters and clouds. This two-part, hands-on workshop is designed to introduce users to parallel computing constructs in MATLAB and to show them how they can scale their jobs to the HPC clusters on campus.

  • Scaling MATLAB to the BigPurple cluster – users will follow along as instructors demonstrate how to configure MATLAB to submit to the   cluster

  • Running single- and multi-node MATLAB jobs

  • Differences between parpool and batch job submission

  • Non-interactive submission via Slurm

Additional computational trainings

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available through other groups

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