Upcoming SDSC webinars: Exploring NAIRR Pilot Portal Sandbox, ICICLE, NRP, and many more..

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Feb 3, 2026, 2:00:24 PM (6 days ago) Feb 3

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Dear WHPC@SDSC Community,

Below you will find a number of training webinars covering essential supercomputing skills—parallel computing, Linux tools, batch computing, and data management—and on emerging areas such as AI, machine learning, and performance analysis, among others, that focus on current and future systems at SDSC and nationwide.

Please share these webinar details with your faculty, staff, students, and any interested communities.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out.

Thank you,

Cindy

Events Specialist

SDSC, UC San Diego

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Exploring the NAIRR Pilot Portal Sandboxes

Speaker: Sandra Gesing, Executive Director of US-RSE and Senior Researcher at SDSC
Date: Tuesday, February 10, from 10:00 am – 11:00 pm (Pacific Time) – next week
Brief Summary: The webinar presentation will highlight three sandboxes, two sandboxes which leverage Jetstream2. The first sandbox highlights Numerical Image Recognition using Jetstream2 based on a NAIRR classroom project. It illustrates how scalable cyberinfrastructure can support teaching, learning, and applied AI experimentation. The second Jetstream2 sandbox, Making Biomedical Data FAIR on the NAIRR (EAGER), focuses on practical approaches to FAIR data management within the NAIRR ecosystem. A third sandbox showcases capabilities enabled by the National Data Platform (NDP). This sandbox presents the NDP dataset catalog and NAIRR workspaces, including projects such as HydroGen and OpenTopography.
Register today: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/5EzvnsZbSgidFemYJQSUQA#/registration

Co-Designing Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computing Continuum: Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE

Speaker: Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University
Date: Tuesday, February 10, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific Time) – next week
Brief Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every sector of society. However, there is a massive and ever-growing gap between available AI techniques and their availability to end users across a range of application domains. This talk will start with an overview of the ICICLE (Intelligent CyberInfrastructure (CI) with Computational Learning in the Environment), an NSF-AI Institute, to address these challenges. We will demonstrate how ICICLE seeks to be the first and foremost edge-to-center AI-as-a-service enterprise for the emerging computing continuum, advancing foundational AI research by fostering next-gen CI for AI to support the wholesome democratization of AI through responsible plug-and-play, and extending the usability and usefulness of AI to the wider population.
Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/overview-nsf-ai-icicle-02-10-26

National Research Platform (NRP) Training

Brief Summary: Comprehensive NRP training sessions designed to help you get the most out of our National Research Platform. NRP is offering two identical comprehensive training sessions:

Set A: February 11 - 12, 2026, from 11am - 2pm Pacific Time – next week
Set B: February 18 & 20, 2026, from 11am - 2pm Pacific Time

Learn more and register today: https://nrp.ai/training/

COMPLECS: Batch Computing: Working with the Linux Scheduler

Speaker: Marty Kandes, Computational and Data Science Research Specialist, SDSC
Date: Thursday February 12, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Brief Summary: A brief introduction to the Linux scheduler, how to interact with it, and run your research workloads on your personal computer, a shared workstation, or even a high-performance computing system.
Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/batch-computing-part-1-02-12-26

Topographic Change with OpenTopography: Adventures in Cloud Computing, Spatial Uncertainty, and Impactful Applications

Speaker: Chelsea Scott and Cassandra Brigham from Arizona State University
Date: Thursday February 25, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Pacific Time)
Brief Summary: Topographic differencing measures landscape change at the Earth’s surface due to natural and anthropogenic processes. OpenTopography, an NSF-funded data facility, provides access to topographic data and processing tools. OpenTopography has recently developed on-demand topographic differencing and uncertainty calculation tools that can be applied to roughly 25% of the US mainland. Our uncertainty tool, available via a cloud-based app and Jupyter notebook, quantifies the magnitude of uncertainty at multiple spatial scales, mirroring the variable scales of common error types. We demonstrate these capabilities by calculating topographic change for the 2025 Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los Angeles.
Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/whpc-sdsc-26-02-25

COMPLECS: Linux Tools for Text Processing

Speaker: Nicole Wolter, Computational and Data Science Research Specialist, SDSC
Date: Thursday February 26, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Brief Summary An overview of commonly used Linux tools for searching and manipulating text. We progress from the simplest tools, such as head, tail, cut, paste, to more complex tools grep, awk and sed.
Register today: https://na.eventscloud.com/linux-tools-for-text-processing-02-26

See full list of upcoming SDSC training and events: https://www.sdsc.edu/events/index.html