For academic staff and PhD students

How could you harness supercomputing power to solve a research problem?

High performance computing (HPC) is used in all academic disciplines. From big data analysis in social sciences to engineering simulations, physical sciences modelling and business-related forecasting.

Join this one-day training course where you will learn all you need to know to start using Bath's Nimbus cloud supercomputer to advance your research.

Thursday 23 February, 10.15am - 5.15pm (online event)

Morning session:

• Introduction to Unix and the shell: navigating the file system, working with files, automating simple tasks, creating shell scripts.
  

Lunchbreak

Afternoon session:

• Introduction to high performance computing: Clusters, connecting to remote machines, file transfer, job scheduling, software modules, running a parallel job.
  
• Nimbus: the research computing account management portal, compute partitions, filesystem, costs, available software, Open On Demand.