The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
(NIMBioS) will host a half-day tutorial, "An In-depth Introduction to
Using R for HPC," from 1-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 at NIMBioS. The tutorial
will be live streamed.
*Objectives: *By some measures, R is the most popular software package
for the analysis of data. But R has a reputation for being sluggish and
inappropriate for large datasets. However, much of R's problems with
performance and scalability are due to bad practices of individual
programmers rather than being inherent limitations of R itself. In this
half-day (four hour) tutorial, we will introduce participants to
debugging, profiling and performance analysis, optimization, foreign
language API's, and parallel programming with R. There will also be a
comprehensive hands-on component to reinforce topics introduced during
the lecture portion.
*Co-Organizers: *Drew Schmidt
<https://www.nics.tennessee.edu/staff?name=mschmid3>, Extreme Science
and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and Eric Carr
<http://www.nimbios.org/personnel/staff>, NIMBioS. This is a joint
training between the University of Tennessee, NIMBioS, XSEDE
<https://www.xsede.org/>, and NICS <https://www.nics.tennessee.edu/>.
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Who Should Attend*: The tutorial is ideally suited for those already
working with R, as well as service providers who are serving R
customers. The content is appropriate for any students, researchers, or
staff who are working with R and interested in performance.
No travel support will be provided for this tutorial. Please register to
receive materials and system requirements for the tutorial. There will
be limited space for local attendance so be sure to indicate on the
registration form if you will be attending in person or via the live stream.
*Registration deadline:* February 25, 2015
For more information about the tutorial and a link to register, go to
http://www.nimbios.org/tutorials/TT_RforHPC
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
(NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from
around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to
investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life
sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with
additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Catherine Crawley, Ph.D.
Communications Manager
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
University of Tennessee
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