Workshops
GP-ENGINE Training
Please register for the workshop because there is some homework required beforehand. Registration is a free ticket on Eventbrite.
Here are the instructions for creating an account prior to the workshop:
GP-ENGINE_Pre-TrainingAccountPreparation
In this tutorial, researchers and practitioners will learn to leverage Kubernetes to scale and parallelize AI/ML and advanced analytics workloads, such that they can run their Big Data workloads on any size of cluster, ranging from local to commercial clouds to publicly-funded research platforms.
This tutorial will cover building reproducible and portable containers for software using Docker and deploying them to Kubernetes clusters. Each step of the deployment from local development to Kubernetes cluster deployment will be covered, including building and pushing custom containers to image registries, building Kubernetes pod and job YAML files, and deploying pods and jobs to the cluster. Hands on examples including running ML jobs in the NSF National Research Platform.
Date and Time: June 11, 2:00-4:30
Maximum attendees: 30
Instructor: Grant Scott
Carpentry workshop
Please register for the workshop because there is some homework required beforehand. Registration is a free ticket on Eventbrite.
The Great Plains Network in collaboration with the Holland Computing Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting a Carpentries style workshop at the Great Plains Network Annual Meeting, introducing the fundamentals of the Unix command command line and bash scripting. Participants will get hands-on experience with the command line to further enable their research.Topics covered include:
- What is the Unix shell and why is it useful for my research?
- Navigation using a command line
- How to create and manipulate files
- How to begin automating repetitive tasks
No prior experience with Bash or using the command line is required. A laptop will be required, but no additional software will be needed other than a web browser. This workshop is open to students and researchers of all level and will provide hands-on experience with valuable skills to improve your workflows and tasks.
Date and Time: June 10, 1:00-4:00
USDA grant writing workshop
Please register for the workshop because there is some homework required beforehand. Registration is a free ticket on Eventbrite.
Representatives from USDA will be onsite with overviews of their agencies’ resources, insights to past funded projects, and opportunities for small group and one-on-one meetings to brainstorm ideas.
Date and Time: June 10, 9:00-11:00
Maximum Attendees: 45
Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals of Deep Learning, Pt. 1
Please register for the workshop because there is some homework required beforehand. Registration is a free ticket on Eventbrite.
Workshop from Nvidia, taught by Michael O’Keeffe.
In this workshop, we will introduce the fundamental techniques and tools required to train a deep learning model. We will provide attendees the opportunity (through a hands-on exercise) to investigate the utility of deep learning for a computer vision application. The overall goal of this two part workshop is to build the confidence of attendees to tackle their own projects with a modern deep learning framework. There are no prerequisites to attend this course – all the necessary background information will be presented in the workshop.
Date and Time: June 10, 9:00-12:00
Maximum Attendees: 40
Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals of Deep Learning, Pt. 2
Second part of the Fundamentals of Deep Learning, taught by Michael O’Keeffe of Nvidia.
In this workshop, we will introduce the fundamental techniques and tools required to train a deep learning model. We will provide attendees the opportunity (through a hands-on exercise) to investigate the utility of deep learning for a computer vision application. The overall goal of this two part workshop is to build the confidence of attendees to tackle their own projects with a modern deep learning framework.
Prerequisites: Attending Part 1, which is held Monday morning.
Date and Time: June 12, 8:30-12:00
Maximum Attendees: 30