Research Computing Bootcamps

Step up your research computing skills

Digital Research Services offers a variety of workshops aimed at developing skills required to perform intensive computing in a high-performance computing (HPC) or Cloud environment. In addition to our bootcamp workshops, Digital Research Services will be offering topic and discipline-specific workshops throughout the year. Exact schedule and topics to be announced.

All workshops will be held online and there is no cost to attend.

Interested in more research computing resources? Check out the Research Computing page to see our list of resources. For access to video recordings from past bootcamps, check out the Bootcamps Video Archive.

Contact Us

For questions, email us at research.support@ualberta.ca.

Workshops

Workshops previously offered

HPC

  • Interactive Tuning + Debugging
  • Building and Managing Reproducible Pipelines as a Non-Root User in HPC with Apptainer

Digital Research Alliance of Canada

  • Introduction to the Alliance
  • RAC Best Practices

Python

  • Introduction to Python
  • Intermediate Python: Plotting
  • Intermediate Python: Parallelism
  • Intermediate Python: Python on the Cluster
  • Intermediate Python: Introduction to Machine Learning

Cloud Computing

  • Cloud Hands-on
  • Cloud Advanced/Containerization

Cloud Computing

  • Cloud Hands-on
  • Cloud Advanced/Containerization

Data Processing

  • Globus
  • Bioinformatics Pipeline for scRNA-seq: From Raw Data to Insights
  • Introduction to R
  • Introduction to OpenRefine

Linux

  • Security Basics
  • Access Control Basics

If you have a specific training need, or interest in a workshop that isn’t currently scheduled, please contact us.