| IS&T RCS Tutorials May 26 – June 23 |
| Registration is open for the RCS Summer 2026 Trainings. Recordings and slides from past tutorials by RCS staff and vendors are also available. |
- For hands-on sessions where you wish to use your own computer, please have the appropriate software installed on your computer before the session starts.
- Tutorials are tagged based on experience required (Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced), location (details below), and if they are new.
- Tutorial sessions are held either in-person or over Zoom. Note that Zoom sessions will be recorded; keep your camera off if you do not want your image recorded. The recorded sessions may be made available to the BU community.
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| The IS&T Research Computing Services (RCS) group offers a tutorial series on programming, data analysis, high performance computing, and visualization three times each year. These tutorials are free and open to all members of the Boston University community. |
| The RCS tutorials cover concepts, techniques, and tools which researchers can use in their own computing environments. Many are designed to help you make effective use of the Boston University Shared Computing Cluster (SCC). The RCS staff can also deliver extra, or customized, tutorial sessions to your course, group, or lab. Please contact us at help@scc.bu.edu if you are interested. |
Trainings Schedule
| Research Computing Basics Tutorials |
Tue, May 26
10:00am – 12:00pm |
Introduction to Linux (Hands-on) |
Tue, May 26
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Introduction to BU’s Shared Computing Cluster (Hands-on) |
Thu, May 28
10:00am – 12:00pm |
Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture) |
Mon, June 8
10:00am – 12:00pm |
Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture) |
| Computer Programming Tutorials |
Mon, June 1
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Introduction to Parallel Programming (Hands-on) |
Tue, June 2
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Natural Language Processing Basics (LLMs Part 1) (Hands-on) |
Thu, June 4
12:30pm – 3:30pm |
Intermediate Language Models (LLMs Part 2) (Hands-on) |
Tue, June 9
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
GPT & Transformers (LLMs Part 3) (Hands-on) |
Wed, June 3
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Python Parallelization (Hands-on) |
Mon, June 8
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Python Optimization (Hands-on) |
Tue, June 9
10:00am – 12:00pm |
Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub, Part One (Hands-on) |
Thu, June 11
10:00am – 12:00pm |
Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub, Part Two (Hands-on) |
Wed, June 10
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Python with Dask (Hands-on) |
Tue, June 23
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Special/Advanced Topics in ML (Hands-on) |
| Data Analysis Tutorials |
Fri, June 12
10:00am – 12:00pm |
Adv. Topics in R: Code Optimization and Paralellization (Hands-on) |
| High Performance Computing Tutorials |
Thu, June 11
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
Introduction to MPI – Scaling your code to run on multiple nodes (Hands-on) |
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| You may register for as many tutorials as you like. Registration is required and is accessed with your BU Kerberos password. |
| If you don’t have a Kerberos password, or if you find that a tutorial is full, or have any other questions, please send email to rcs-tutorial@bu.edu. |
Tutorial Locations
2 Cummington Mall, Room 107
Online over Zoom – After you register, a calendar invite with a Zoom link will be sent to you. |
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