🇨🇦 Exclusive Research Computing Bootcamp

General Information

Team Leader:

Dr. Mona Parizadeh (Ph.D., PDF) Senior Postdoctoral Associate @ UofC Cumming School of Medicine & ICOIA's President

Instructors:

Farzaneh Rahmdani (M.Sc.) Research Assistant @ UQAM, Bioinformatic Platform Manager @ CERMO-FC, & ICOIA's Member

Golrokh Kiani (M.Sc.) Bioinformatician @ Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine & ICOIA's Governance Board Member

Teacher Assistant:

Shokoufeh Manouchehr (Ph.D. Student) CERC Lab Supervisor @ UofC & ICOIA's Member

Organized by: ICOIA (International Community of Iranian Academics)

Funded by: Digital Research Alliance of Canada

Objective: Bridging Gaps in Research Computing for Canadian Persian-speaking Immigrants

Workshop Duration and Commitment:

• Timeframe: Mondays and Thursdays; March 3 to March 27, 2025
• Sessions: Five 75-minute sessions
• Hands-On Projects: Two 2-hour sessions
• Format: Online
• Additional Support: We provide private or small group sessions on demand

Requirements:

• Laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) with administrative privileges
• Access to Wifi
• Excel or any text editor installed (e.g. TextWrangler, Notepad, BBEdit, etc.)

Contact: icoia.onlineschool@gmail.com

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Audience

We welcome participants who:

• speak Farsi
• live in Canada
• are affiliated with a Canadian university or research institution
• currently work with data or plan to in the future

This course is suitable for:

• Levels: Beginner & Intermediate
• Fields: including, but not limited to:
• Agriculture and Natural Resources
• AI and Machine Learning
• Bioinformatics
• Biological Sciences
• Biomolecular simulation
• Computational chemistry
• Computer Science
• CFD
• Engineering
• GIS
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Medicine
• Microbiology
• Research Data Management
• Subatomic physics
• Veterinary

• Language: Farsi

Outline

This course covers the following material:

• Introduction to Compute Canada resources
• High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• Linux
• Bash scripting
• Slurm workload manager
• Running jobs
• Research data management
• Data transfer: Globus
• JupyterHub
• Hands-on projects