This workshop is designed to give you practical experience using the high-performance computing system offered by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC). Through guided hands-on activities, you can expect to leave this workshop with the knowledge and skills required run your own computational experiments using DRAC start to finish – from organizing and uploading your data and code to submitting jobs, and troubleshooting common errors.
- A basic understanding of what a computer program or script is, including how to run a script and how programs use input files to produce output files
- Familarity with editing code with a code editor (ex. VS Code)
- A terminal (typically pre-installed on your laptop)
- Digital Research Alliance of Canada account, login information (username and password), and access to one of their general-purpose clusters (Fir, Narval, Nibi, or Rorqual)
- Duo Mobile application downloaded on your phone
- Globus Connect Personal downloaded on your laptop
- A code editor (ex. VS Code)
- Module I: About the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC)
- Module II: Preparing Your Data and Code for DRAC
- Module III: Running a Job on DRAC
- Module IV: Handling Job Errors
All materials created by Megan Ng
Workshop created as part of the McGill Initiative in Computational Medicine