Spring Semester Workshops by URI CCR / AI Lab

Welcome back! The details of our CCR / AI Lab semester workshops are presented below. These are open to faculty, staff and students and are totally free. 

https://docs.unity.uri.edu/news/2025/01/uri-spring-25-workshops/
You can also find these on the URI events calendar (and subscribe): https://events.uri.edu/group/ai

We have some relatively new workshop offerings on AI Tools, Gen AI and Bioinformatics. A huge thanks to Indrani Mandal and our student team for planning and preparing these workshops!

The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program

The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program recognizes and promotes leaders and advocates of high-quality software who foster practices, processes, and tools that help to improve scientific productivity and software sustainability. Each selected 2025 BSSw Fellow will receive up to $25,000 for an activity that promotes better scientific software. The deadline for apps is Sept. 30. Find out more here: https://bssw.io/pages/bssw-fellowship-program

New Unity HPC/AI Quick Start Guide!

Unity is our primary HPC/AI computational platform at the Mass. Green HPC Center. It is an advanced and complex computing system that we are always trying to make more accessible to all types of users. While we have a very extensive set of new Unity documentation https://docs.unity.uri.edu/ we have now prepared a “Unity Quick Start” guide that is much shorter and may serve as an excellent “cheat sheet” of sorts. Please reach out to us, if you’d like to have a copy! 

Fall ’24 workshops on Python, R, Statistics Software, etc.

We are continuing with our workshop series covering topics like Python, R, Statistics Software, Unity HPC and more, coordinated with the URI AI Lab. You can find the detailed schedule here:

URI Events Page for AI Lab: https://events.uri.edu/group/ai

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z5g_c6HFxm2D0UYNpBvxGPKbJn8F1s3h2QOFaYfOzag

Or check out each individual workshop at these links 

Python: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-python

Unity: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-unityosn

Tableau: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-tableau-series

AI Tools: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-ai-tools

Generative AI: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-generative-ai

Bioinformatics: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-bioinformatics

SPSS/SAS: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-spsssas

R: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-r-series

Data Science: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-data-science

ML/DL: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-machine-learning-deep-learning

GitHub: https://events.uri.edu/event/ai-lab-workshops-github

R, Python, SAS, SPSS, Unity, Bioinformatics and more workshop recordings available!

Our workshop program for the semester has wrapped up. Here you can find the recordings of all the workshops we ran including R, SAS, SPSS, Python, Bioinformatics, Unity and others: http://its.uri.edu/research-training

Spring ’24 semester workshops: Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Unity and more

Our Research Computing / AI Lab Spring ’24 semester workshop program can be found now on the URI Events Calendar: https://events.uri.edu/group/ai/calendar/ 

More specifically: 

Data Science – https://events.uri.edu/event/ai_lab_workshops_-_data_science

GitHub – https://events.uri.edu/event/ai_lab_workshops_-_github

Bioinformatics – https://events.uri.edu/event/ai_lab_workshops_-_bioinformatics

R – https://events.uri.edu/event/ai_lab_workshops_-_r_series

SAS/SPSS – https://events.uri.edu/event/ai_lab_workshops_-_spsssas

Unity – https://events.uri.edu/event/ai_lab_workshops_-_unityosn

Or you can also find a full list with dates/times and Zoom links here: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8YcDSoRR0SMKi4lQL1V3mY4IGX2mec-TwsfTCFzcdI/edit?usp=sharing

Research Computing Workshops — Fall 2023

1. Unity on-boarding workshop: Unity is our state-of-the-art HPC/AI platform with ~20,000 CPU-cores and ~1,300 GPUs built and operated in collaboration with the UMass system. Topics covered include logging on via SSH and Unity OnDemand, submitting batch and interactive command-line Slurm jobs for MPI parallelized or multithreaded applications, using the Unity OnDemand graphical applications (JupyterLab, RStudio, etc), and using the Unity OnDemand job composer. This workshop will be held remotely via Zoom. Please register for a Unity account prior to the workshop if you do not already have one at https://unity.uri.edu 

Date/Time: Monday, August 28, 2023 at 2 pm EDT
Zoom Link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/92991295046

2.  Data Carpentry workshop: Rachel Schwartz and Sarah Brown will be running their annual Data Carpentry workshop from August 31st — Sept 1st. The topic is “Introduction to Data Analysis in R” and is open to all researchers (recommended minimum advanced undergraduate) interested in learning how to use R in their work. Please register here. Thanks Rachel and Sarah! 

3. Singularity/Apptainer basics: ACCESS (formerly XSEDE) is holding a virtual workshop on “Containerizing HPC applications with Singularity/Apptainer” on Sept. 8th. Details appear here. 

4. Women in Bioinformatics: Two-day workshop that brings together researchers from computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, biology, biotechnology, and chemistry to present their research in the interdisciplinary field of Bioinformatics. November 3-4 and Southern CT State University. Details appear here.

5. MGHPCC HPC Day: The MGHPCC HPC Day Conference will held at UMass Dartmouth this year on Nov 3rd. Website is up! 

6. URI Research Computing / AI Lab workshops: URI Research Computing and AI Lab teams will soon announce their coordinated plan for Fall semester workshops on R, Machine Learning (w/ Python), Tableau, Stats software and more. 

Research Computing Topical Workshops — Fall 2023

1. Unity on-boarding workshop: Unity is our state-of-the-art HPC/AI platform with ~20,000 CPU-cores and ~1,300 GPUs built and operated in collaboration with the UMass system. Topics covered include logging on via SSH and Unity OnDemand, submitting batch and interactive command-line Slurm jobs for MPI parallelized or multithreaded applications, using the Unity OnDemand graphical applications (JupyterLab, RStudio, etc), and using the Unity OnDemand job composer. This workshop will be held remotely via Zoom. Please register for a Unity account prior to the workshop if you do not already have one at https://unity.uri.edu

Date/Time: Monday, August 28, 2023 at 2 pm EDT
Zoom Link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/92991295046

2. Data Carpentry workshop: Rachel Schwartz and Sarah Brown will be running their annual Data Carpentry workshop from August 31st — Sept 1st. The topic is “Introduction to Data Analysis in R” and is open to all researchers (recommended minimum advanced undergraduate) interested in learning how to use R in their work. Please register here. Thanks Rachel and Sarah!

3. Singularity/Apptainer basics: ACCESS (formerly XSEDE) is holding a virtual workshop on “Containerizing HPC applications with Singularity/Apptainer” on Sept. 8th. Details appear here. 

4. Women in Bioinformatics: Two-day workshop that brings together researchers from computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, biology, biotechnology, and chemistry to present their research in the interdisciplinary field of Bioinformatics. November 3-4 and Southern CT State University. Details appear here.

5. MGHPCC HPC Day: The MGHPCC HPC Day Conference will held at UMass Dartmouth this year on Nov 3rd.  Website is up! 

6. URI Research Computing / AI Lab workshops: URI Research Computing and AI Lab teams will soon announce their coordinated plan for Fall semester workshops on R, Machine Learning (w/ Python), Tableau, Stats software and more.

Colabfold on Unity workshop — June 30th

Predict protein structures on Unity with Colabfold

 

Unity facilitator Cecile Cres of the University of Rhode Island will present a workshop on ColabFold. During this workshop, participants will gain experience with protein structure prediction using Colabfold. Talking points will include prediction of single and complex structures, how to request computer resources efficiently and how to interpret the predicted protein models. This workshop will provide direct practical experience by using a Jupyter notebook on the Unity OnDemand interface. This workshop will be held remotely via Zoom. Please register for a Unity account prior to the workshop if you do not already have one at https://unity.rc.umass.edu/Date and Time: Friday, June 30, 2023 at 2 pm EDT

Zoom Link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/94737984998