HiPerGator Beginner and Advanced Workshops

HiPerGator Beginner and Advanced Workshops

HiPerGator (HPG) is the University of Florida’s high-performance computing system that is designed to aid faculty, staff, and students with their high demanding computing needs. HPG is especially useful for scientists and researchers because it provides all the tools necessary for analyzing huge amounts of data that is otherwise hard to handle with just a personal computer.

As a graduate student who is analyzing big sets of data, I personally benefit a lot from using the HPG cluster. Even though I use it every day, there is certainly a lot more to learn in terms of navigating through the system. For someone who is thinking about using the cluster for their work, it would certainly help in knowing the power of this computing system and where to begin. It might be a challenge at first (at least it was for me), but I assure you, the reward is far greater than the efforts itself. This is why the HiPerGator workshops were so helpful for everyone who is using or plans on using HiPerGator at some point.

The HiperGator workshop series that Florida Museum Student Association organized with Dr. Matt Gitzendanner was aimed at helping graduate students navigate through the system a little easier. Dr. Gitzendanner has helped me tremendously over the past few years when I

was just starting with learning the platform. To have him in a room (virtually), sharing his tips and tricks about the computing cluster was invaluable to me. He dedicated his time to come and share his knowledge about the cluster with the graduate students. I learned so much from both the beginner and the advanced workshops. The system keeps changing every day and just when you think you know something; they add in another update to make your life easier. This is what I love about working on the computing cluster. Thanks to the workshops, I now know who to reach out to when I need some assistance and most of all, where to find all the online resources. I hope it was as helpful to all the other graduate students as it was for me.

Written by Niyomi House

 

Thank you to both Niyomi House for writing this article, and Dr. Matt  Gitzendanner for hosting the workshop.  For more information on HiPerGator please click here. If you would like the recordings please contact us at studentassociation@floridamuseum.ufl.edu

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