The programme is provisional and subject to change. It should serve as a indication of the broad topics that will be explored. There will be time during the hands-on sessions for participants to explore parallelisation of their own R scripts/codes on Sulis with hands-on support from local experts.

Day 1

Morning session

• Introduction to the Sulis HPC service
• Using the command line to execute R scripts
• Remote shells via SSH
  • Key based access and two-factor authentication
  • Copying files to/from remote systems
  • Remote home directory
• Accessing software from the command line
  • Environment modules
  • Installing R packages

Afternoon session

• Using batch queues
  • Walltime / accounting
  • Interactive jobs
  • Estimating resource requirements
  • Writing batch scripts
• Persistent remote sessions

Day 2

Morning session

• Parallelising computation using threads
  • mcapply, parallel foreach and associated pitfalls
  • Batch scripts for multi-threaded computations
• Parallelisation over multiple R instances and job scripts
  • Pros and cons of various approaches
• Load considerations

Afternoon session

• Designing workflows and integrated solutions
  • ClusterMQ on HPC
• Further reading