Training

DCC Workshops

We recommend that all DCC users sign up for and attend a introductory session to the DCC. The session is held on the first Tuesday of every month, register at colab.duke.edu/roots/ for an upcoming session. Current pdf version of the slides.

Other Live RC Workshops

Research Computing offers in person and virtual technical training workshops through the Innovation Co-Lab /roots program. Topics vary each semester and range from introductory skills to advanced topics for senior researchers. View the full list of topics and register for a research computing workshop at: colab.duke.edu/roots

Workshops include: Linux & the BASH shell, Python, R, Singularity

Additionally, Duke users may register for XSEDE Webinars at: portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/

Recommended Online Training for Newer Users

The Duke co-lab /roots program offers:

• Linux & the BASH Shell Self-Paced Course
• Git Self-Paced Course

Software carpentry has a number of online lessons for basic lab skills for research computing at software-carpentry.org:

• The UNIX shell
• Version Control with GIT
• Programming with Python
• Plotting and Programming in Python
• Programming with R
• R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
• Intro to HPC - this course is under-development, but is an excellent overview of cluster computing for novices.