Purdue RCAC HPC Exchange Workshop

 

I’m hosting an introductory workshop for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers aiming to familiarize them with High Performance Computing and RCAC resources. Would you be able to help me distribute this to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Software Engineering? Details for the event are below:

 

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HPC Exchange (February)

 

📅 Date: February 6th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 1:00-2:30 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Jacob Verburgt

 

Register at https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/7599/visit/MTA5ODUx

 

Who Should Attend

People who are starting to use High Performance Computing systems and want to learn how to use them. There is no prior knowledge/experience requirement to attend these workshops.

 

What You’ll Learn

By the end of the four 90 minute sessions, you’ll feel confident in your ability to navigate HPC systems and use them to run your workflow. You will learn basic Unix commands as well as HPC-specific ones. By the end, you should be equipped to create scripts and run applications on Purdue's supercomputing clusters.

 

Week 1 - Friday, February 6th 7th, 2026 - Unix basics

Week 2 - Friday, February 13th, 2026 - HPC basics

Week 3 - Friday, February 20th, 2026 - Advanced Unix

Week 4 - Friday, February 27th, 2026 - Advanced HPC

Level Beginner - No experience needed

 

🔗 Register now: LINK