Training and outreach for advanced computing and research

• Overview
• Workshops, trainings, and seminars
• Advanced cyberinfrastructure tours
• Outreach
• Education and workforce development
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) pipeline

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Overview

UITS Research Technologies provides targeted training, seminars, workshops, and tours that connect you with the services you need to reach discovery.

Workshops, trainings, and seminars

Supercomputing for Everyone Series (SC4ES)

The Research Technologies Supercomputing for Everyone Series (SC4ES) offers in-person trainings and online courses that teach you how to use the research computing, storage, and software resources available at IU. Some SC4ES courses are available online via the IU Expand portal. For more, see the Supercomputing for Everyone Series on the IU IT Training website.

Compute, storage, research software

• Research Programming with GPUs
• Intro to High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Research Desktop at IU (online via IU Expand)
• Jetstream Overview
• Storage for High Performance Computing
• Statistical and Numerical Software for HPC
• Parallel Programming for Data Science (Matlab, R, Python)
• Parallel Programming for Modeling and Simulation (C, C++, Fortran)
• Unix: The Basics
  • Basic UNIX/LINUX Skills (online via IU Expand)

Databases and surveys

• IU REDCap Seminars/Webinars and Office Hours
  • Weekly office hours via Zoom (Wednesdays, 3-4:30pm)
• Getting Started with IU REDCap
• Surveys in IU REDCap
• Data Quality in IU REDCap
• Extensive library of REDCap training videos

Visualization and data services

• Services for Digital Humanities and Creative Activities Seminar Series
  • Playlist of archived presentations on YouTube
• Impact of Virtual Reality Seminar Series
  • Playlist of archived presentations on YouTube
• Augmented, Virtual, and Extended Reality Seminar Series
  • Playlist of archived presentations on YouTube

For biologists and genomicists

• HPC Onboarding for Biologists
  • HPC Onboarding for Biologists (online via IU Expand)
• Intro to R for Biologists
  • Intro to R for Biologists (online via IU Expand)
• Transcriptome Assembly, Annotation, and Analysis (course materials)
• Metagenomics Analysis Workshop (course materials)
• De Novo Assembly of Transcriptomes Using HPC Resources (course materials)

IU students, faculty, staff also may request that a SC4ES trainings be taught at time and/or locations that are convenient for their schools, departments, or programs; contact IT Training.

Peebles Memorial Lectures in Information Technology

The Peebles Memorial Lectures in Information Technology series sponsors one lecture per academic year in areas of information technology relevant to research, teaching, or creative activity in academia.

Advanced cyberinfrastructure tours

IU's advanced cyberinfrastructure includes high performance supercomputers, advanced visualization facilities, and high-throughput networking technologies. Tours are available for individuals, classes, or departments. To schedule a tour, contact UITS Research Technologies.

Outreach

Publications

• Impact highlights from Research Technologies
• IU Research Technologies YouTube channel
• Research Technologies news
• Research Technologies events
• Bibliography of publications by UITS Research Technologies personnel

National impact

Each year, UITS Research Technologies collaborates with other IU entities (for example, SICE and GlobalNOC) to display IU computer science, informatics, and cyberinformatics innovations at the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

Additionally, the PTI hosts a number of national and international conferences at IU, providing the opportunity for IU students, faculty, and staff to attend conferences they might not otherwise by saving them travel costs and time. Attendees can present their research and learn more about particular topics of interest. Hosting conferences also helps strengthen IU's reputation as a national research institution, and introduces researchers from around the world to Bloomington and the state of Indiana.

Recent conferences hosted by PTI and Research Technologies include:

• HPSS User Forum 2019 (HUF19)
• The Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization Fourth Annual Conference (THE CAAV 2019)
• Lustre User Group 2017 (LUG 2017)
• Galaxy Community Conference 2016 (GCC2016)

Education and workforce development

Courses

UITS Research Technologies staff teach courses at IU and travel the world to teach topics including scientific visualization, virtual reality, and digital humanities.

Internships

Internships with UITS Research Technologies and other research centers affiliated with the PTI; for currently available internships, check the Jobs @ IU website.

Jetstream2 REU program

The Jetstream2 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program provides students the opportunity to work with IU researchers and staff on mentored research projects using Jetstream2.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) pipeline

Ready, Set, Robots!

Each year, UITS Research Technologies hosts the Ready, Set, Robots! camp, where junior high and high school students learn computer programming, problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and teamwork. Students also gain public speaking experience, respect for their equipment and facilities, and insight into working "green" (in IU Bloomington's LEED-certified Cyberinfrastructure Building).

K-12 and university education and training resources

Research Technologies events and curricula resources help entice the next generation of Hoosiers to pursue exciting careers in STEM fields. View all education resources.