Ohio Supercomputer Center Big Data & New User Training Events

Two-Day Big Data Webcast Workshop

We wanted to notify you of a training opportunity from the HPC community:

On May 1st and 2nd from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., OSC is hosting a two-day Big Data Workshop from XSEDE and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The workshop will focus on Hadoop and Spark and cover Deep Learning with Tensorflow.

This is an in-person webcast, hosted by OSC located on Ohio State’s west campus. You can see the full workshop agenda and register here.

Introduction to Research Computing at OSC

We will hold an introduction to research computing services for new users on May 24, 2018 at 1 p.m. on Ohio State University’s main campus in Research Commons, 18th Ave Library, 3rd floor. New and prospective users of our systems will get an overview of research computing at OSC, try out our web portal, OnDemand, and ask any questions about their work. 

You can see more details and register here.

Big Data at OSC Workshop

We are pleased to announce our own Big Data workshop will be June 6, 2018 at 1 p.m. at OSC on the west campus of Ohio State University. This workshop will begin with an introduction to Big Data. Data analytics capabilities at OSC will be discussed. The workshop focuses on running Hadoop and Spark jobs using OSC resources. Attendees will have an opportunity to run some hands-on exercises using these software packages on the OSC clusters. 

Information and registration can be accessed from our events calendar. 

OSC Office Hours will continue through the summer!

If you have specific questions about your work at OSC or need help getting started, you can talk to an OSC representative in person.

Our office hours are every other Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Research Commons, third floor of the 18th Avenue Library on Ohio State’s main campus. Please sign up for these sessions here: go.osu.edu/rc-osc. If you would like a virtual session, please include that in the session notes.

If you are not available during these times, please contact us at OSC Help to schedule an alternate arrangement.

To stay up to date on system notices, please visit www.osc.edu/events or follow @HPCNotices on Twitter. As always, you can contact us at OSC Help.

Thank you,

Brian Guilfoos

HPC Client Services Manager
(614) 292-2846  |  guilfoos@osc.edu
OSC Help Desk: (614) 292-1800  |  (800) 686-6472  |  oschelp@osc.edu