Introduction to Phoenix for Bioinformaticians

Introduction to Phoenix (UofA HPC) for Bioinformaticians

Who is this workshop for?

Does my work involve computational intensive tasks? Do I want to know more about the state-of-art computing facilities the University provide to use (for FREE)? Am I new to high performance computing (HPC) filed? Do I know some Linux/Unix and want to know how to operate under high performance computing (HPC) environment? If you answer to most of the questions are YES, then we are expecting to see you.

Objectives

1. Introduction to shared environment
   
2. Enable emergent users to determine need for HPC
   
3. Enable familiarization with Phoenix
   
4. Edit the first Phoenix job script and submit the first job
   
5. Introduction to additional computing facilities and training resources for emerging bioinformaticians

Duration

90 mins

Written on August 9th, 2017 by Robert Qiao