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2026 Seminars
Basics on Submission Scripts: SLURM Header and Flags SLURM Jobs Beginner
Brinton Eldridge, PhD candidate in Chemistry and GA for the Research Computing group
discusses Basics on Submission Scripts: SLURM Header and Flags. On BigBlue, SLURM
serves as our job scheduler, and it is in charge of efficiently allocating resources
across the cluster. This talk will provide a, hopefully, comprehensive walkthrough
of the key headers in SLURM submission scripts. You might have noticed them at the
top of your submission files: they start with `--SBATCH`. We will talk about critical
resource-requesting flags such as those for CPU cores, memory, time limits, and partition
specifications. Additionally, we’ll explain best practices for optimization and common
pitfalls to avoid. This talk will be perfect for those of you who have always used
the same headers. Understanding what each header is used for is vital if you ever
change your scripts or need your job scheduled sooner.
Watch Video →HPC Basics Beginner HPC Linux
Brian will go through some of the fundamentals of concepts needed to use the HPC.
He will cover some of the basics of using the Linux command line, submitting several
different types of jobs to the cluster, finding metadata on jobs, and using BigBlueWeb.
Watch Video →2025 Seminars
Version Control for Researchers using GitHub GitHub Reproducibility Beginner
Brian Wentzloff from the Research Computing group will discusses version control for
researchers using Github. Much modern research is built on code, data, and collaboration.
But too often, our work lives in files named final_final_really_final_v3.sh. In this
talk, we’ll explore how Git and GitHub can serve as a lab notebook for your code,
capturing every change, every experiment, and every result in a way that’s searchable,
shareable, and reproducible. We’ll look at common problems like lost provenance, overwritten
scripts, and vanishing student projects, and show how version control offers a simple,
powerful foundation for scientific integrity. Whether you’re managing pipelines, container
definitions, or paper drafts, Git and GitHub can bring order, transparency, and longevity
to your research.
Watch Video →An Introduction to Containers: How to set up an environment to run your software -
October 31, 2025 Containers Beginner HPC
Eric Spangler demonstrates “An Introduction to Containers: How to set up an environment
to run your software". This applies to many of the most popular software titles in
advanced computing including Conda/MiniConda, AlphaFold, NVIDIA GPU Containers, NAMD,
LAMMPS, Git-pulled software, and many more using Singularity, our primary container
software (similar to Docker, but for HPCs). It will show the portability of containers
and how to move between your computer, BigBlue, iTiger, cloud providers or wherever
you might want to run them.
Watch Video →LLMs and Generative AI on iTiger GPU Cluster - September 26, 2025 AI GPU Beginner
Mayira Sharif, a Computer Science student, presents a seminar titled “Crash Course
into LLMs and other Generative AI in the iTiger GPU Cluster”
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