XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data

XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop, to be held February 7-8, 2018.

Topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom(WAC) training platform.

This workshop is free of charge and will be webcast beginning at 10:00 a.m. Central Time at the Milo Bail Student Center on the UNO Campus.

Register via the XSEDE User Portal

When:

February 7th & 8th - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Where:

Milo Bail Student Center
UNO's Dodge Campus
Day 1: Chancellor's Room (room 228)
Day 2: Dodge Room A (room 302)

Attendees will need to bring their own laptop.

Parking information: Parking available per UNO parking guidelines. Reciprocal parking for permit-holding NU associates from other campuses is available at Saint Margaret Mary Church at 6116 Dodge St. Daily parking is also available in the West Parking Garage for $4 per day.

Agenda:

Presenter materials

Wednesday, February 7:

  • 10:00 - Welcome
  • 10:25 - Intro to Big Data
  • 11:00 - Hadoop
  • 11:30 - Intro to Spark
  • 12:00 - Lunch break
  • 1:00 - Spark
  • 2:30 - Spark Exercises
  • 3:30 - Spark
  • 4:00 - Adjourn

Thursday, February 8:

  • 10:00 - Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
  • 12:00 - Lunch break
  • 1:00 - Deep Learning with Tensorflow
  • 3:30 - Bridges: A Big Data Platform
  • 4:00 - Adjourn