Event Description
Faculty, researchers, and
students are invited to join staff from Drexel IT and the Office of Research
and Innovation for weekly virtual round table discussions focused on academic
computing services and needs.
We’ll start each hour
covering important news, updates, and events, before moving on to questions and
discussion. To encourage open and frank dialogue, these meetings will not be
recorded.
Winter Term Schedule (January
11–March 14, 2024):
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Academic and Instructional IT
Office Hours: Thursdays at 10 AM
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Research IT Office Hours:
Thursdays at 11 AM
You can join this meeting
via Microsoft
Teams. Detailed information can be found at docs.urcf.drexel.edu/training/lightning_talks/.
During the Research IT Office
Hours, the University Research Computing Facility will begin with 15-minute
lightning talks that focus on advanced research computing topics. Specific
topics for the remainder of the Winter quarter are as follow:
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February 15, 2024
: Spark
and sparklyr, large-memory distributed computing for R
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February 22, 2024
: Spark and pyspark,
large-memory distributed computing for Python
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February 29, 2024
: Advanced scheduling in Slurm:
efficiency and utilization
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March 7, 2024
: Advanced scheduling in Slurm:
job array and chained jobs
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