{"id":65746,"date":"2013-05-08T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=65746"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:20:31","slug":"research-computing-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/research\/consulting-training\/research-computing-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Computing Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\"><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"tw icon-mapmarker\"><\/span> Quick Start<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available to:<\/strong> Students, Faculty, Researchers, Staff, External Research Collaborators, Industrial Partners. Most of the web-based materials are available to the general public. Some of the classroom training sessions are available to the general research community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost: <\/strong>No charge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"#GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/a>, below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>Training and reference materials for learning how to use research computing resources include tutorials, presentations, and online documentation. Classroom training and live presentations are also occasionally offered.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>Training materials can reduce the time you&#8217;ll need to learn the various systems, teach you new tools and techniques to help you meet your objectives, and increase your effectiveness in using the computing and visualization resources.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/training\/classroom\/rcs-tutorials\/\">Research Computing Training Series<\/a> is offered at the beginning of each semester.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/rcs-tutorial-videos-and-third-party-tutorials\/\">Recorded Sessions and Training Material<\/a> is available for prior training sessions and supplementary training material.<\/li>\n<li>Extensive documentation for use of Research Computing resources and popular software pages is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/\">RCS support website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/sccsvc.bu.edu\/software\/#\/\">list of all software supported<\/a> on the Shared Computing Cluster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>None<\/p>\n<h2>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<p><a id=\"GettingStarted\"><\/a>Learn more about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/training\/classroom\/rcs-tutorials\/\">Upcoming Training Schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/training-consulting\/rcs-tutorial-videos-and-third-party-tutorials\/\">Recorded Sessions and Training Material<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sccsvc.bu.edu\/software\/#\/\">Software packages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training and reference materials for learning how to use the research computing and visualization facilities include tutorials, presentations, and online help pages. Classroom training and live presentations are also occasionally offered&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1356,"featured_media":0,"parent":68232,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65746"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158688,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65746\/revisions\/158688"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}