Upcoming Events & Trainings

Not sure what HPC stands for and why you might use large-scale computing? Running jobs on your laptop overnight? Unclear what “remote” means when it comes to working with data? This session will provide an overview of remote and high-performance computing terminology, architecture, and...Read more about Introduction to High Performance + Remote Computing

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Using data science and the cloud to better understand coronaviruses and COVID-19

This month's meetup showcases two UC Berkeley research groups’ use of Azure cloud services to meet research challenges of their award as part of the C3.ai Digital...Read more about UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 031: COVID-19 research using data science & Azure

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This month's meetup focuses on Cloud Meetup partner Berkeley SkyDeck and explores why startups are important to Berkeley, how startups should think about selecting their cloud based tech stacks, and features a lightning talk from Mithril, a current cohort...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 030: Berkeley Startups and the Cloud

Python & Jupyter Notebooks on Savio training
Monday, November 15, 2021
Training: 3:40 - 5:00 pm via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

Research IT is offering an intermediate training session on using Python and...Read more about Python & Jupyter Notebooks on Savio Training

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This month's meetup is the first in a series of vendor showcase meetups in which the UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup asks for the vendor to provide research oriented applications of their cloud stacks. In this case AWS has selected RISELab, and we will hear from Joey Gonzalez...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 029: AWS and the RiseLab

Thursday, October 14, 2021
Drop-in help: 3:10-3:40
Training: 3:40-5:00pm via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

Registration:...Read more about Introduction to high performance computing with Savio training registration

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No researcher wants to wake up to a headline screaming that their research has leaked human subject data onto the Darkweb. But it's not always clear to people how to protect their key research data, and there is much pressing work to do beyond security. Ever...Read more about VIRTUAL-- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 028: Secure Research Data + Compute

Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
10:00-11:30am via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

Research IT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab are partnering to provide this 90 minute general...Read more about Introduction to Amazon Web Services

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 8:40am to 10:00am
via Zoom (we will send the Zoom info after you register)

This training will introduce you to the key concepts and tools for using containers, in particular Docker and Singularity containers. Containers make it easy to install software, move...Read more about Introduction to containers on Savio: creating reproducible, scalable, & portable workflows

Sunday, March 7, 2021 - 4:00pm to Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 4:00pm
Online
Women in Data Science (WiDS) at UC Berkeley
Date: March 8 - 12, 2021
Registration and schedule: WiDS Berkeley: Women in...Read more about Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference - March 2021

Sunday, February 7, 2021 - 4:00pm to Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 4:00pm
A series of virtual events
Celebrate Love Data Week (LDW) by joining the UC community for a series of virtual events across campuses from February 8 - February 12, 2021!

This nationwide campaign is designed...Read more about Love Data Week 2021