Jumpstart your summer research with ARC!

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Jump start your research this summer! ARC has assembled some resources and links here that we hope will be helpful and timely for those engaged in research computing with ARC this summer.

Continue reading below for details about:
- Getting Started On TinkerCliffs and Infer
- Creating Software Modules
- ARC Office Hours
- Training and Carpentries Workshops


GETTING STARTED ON TINKERCLIFFS AND INFER
Get started on these new clusters brought online in 2020-2021!
- TinkerCliffs Reference: https://arc.vt.edu/tinkercliffs/
- Infer Reference: https://arc.vt.edu/infer/
- Examples: https://github.com/AdvancedResearchComputing/examples
- Tutorial on the module system: https://video.vt.edu/media/ARCA+Using+modules+to+access+software+packages+%28EasyBuild+version%29/0_nhj2cdjy/176584251
- New Open OnDemand instance: https://ood.arc.vt.edu/
Let us know if you have questions, need a software installation, or would like an example for your application: https://arc.vt.edu/help


CREATING SOFTWARE MODULES
Want a software package that ARC doesn\'t offer? We just posted two new videos about how you can add custom software packages to the module system on ARC clusters:
- Creating Custom Software Modules with EasyBuild: https://video.vt.edu/media/Creating+Custom+Software+Modules+with+EasyBuild/1_et3mu28o
- Manual Install of Custom Software Modules using setup_app: https://video.vt.edu/media/Building+Custom+Software+Modules+Manually+on+ARC%27s+Resources/1_ylh24w9q

More video tutorials are here: https://arc.vt.edu/video-tutorials/
Let us know if there are other videos that you\'d like to see: https://arc.vt.edu/help


ARC OFFICE HOURS: https://www.arc.vt.edu/office-hours
ARC is hosting virtual office hours each weekday via Zoom. Come join us to have a one-on-one dialog to get a broad overview of ARC, troubleshoot a tricky problem, or design your jobs.


TRAINING and CARPENTRIES WORKSHOPS:
Training opportunities: https://profdev.tlos.vt.edu/?query=arc

-- Our first workshop is THIS WEDNESDAY! Sign up now! --

We have expanded our Intro to ARC courses into a sequence of six 75 minutes courses to allow more time to dive into the some of the major aspects of using ARC systems at Virginia Tech:
ARC1 Systems and Services Overview: Wednesday, May 26 1:00-2:15
ARC2 Getting Connected: Monday, June 1, 11:00-12:15
ARC3 Linux/BASH for HPC: Monday, June 15, 1:00-2:15
ARC4 Running Jobs with SLURM: Thursday, July 1, 9:00-10:15
ARC5 Scaling Up: Monday, July 13, 10:00-11:15
ARC6 Software: Monday, July 27, 11:00-12:15

The content for these courses will be tailored specifically to ARC\'s systems and follow in the spirit of these in-development HPC Carpentries lessons which you may find helpful as a self-guided introduction to understand and interact with current standard high-performance computing systems: https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/hpc-intro/

\"The Carpentries\" are an open content set of lessons that teach \"foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.\" Virginia Tech has an actively growing community of certified instructors who conducts many workshops based on the carpentries lessons each year.

Software/Data Carpentries: https://calendar.lib.vt.edu/calendar/events?t=d&q=carpentry&cid=10680&cal=10680&inc=0
- Data Carpentry: Geospatial Data in R
- Pre-fall Semester Carpentry courses in Unix, Git, Python, and R: August 2-13 (registration should open soon)
https://carpentries.org

We\'re looking forward to working with you this summer!

Best regards,

Advanced Research Computing
Virginia Tech