Events
-
-
-
-
-
-
This hands-on session introduces participants to the layout and usage of the Hoffman2 Cluster environment. Attendees will learn how to navigate the file system, load software modules, and run interactive computing sessions using the job scheduler. Ideal for researchers looking to explore tools, test code, or perform small-scale analyses in real time.
Navigating the Cluster & Running Jobs Interactively -- HPC@UCLA Workshop 2 of 5
-
-
Do you use LLMs but wish you could improve the results? In this workshop you will learn how to get the most out of LLMs using a step-by-step approach to prompt engineering. You will also learn about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and how to implement a basic RAG application. Finally, you will learn how to combine these two techniques to maximize the quality and effectiveness of LLM outputs.
ZoomLearn Prompt Engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation Using Open-Source LLMs
-
Join us for a session on disability in sports with guest lecturer Sam McIntosh, Paralympic track athlete. This presentation will explore the history and significance of the Paralympics, the classification system that ensures fair competition, and the broader impact of sports on the lives of young disabled individuals. Through Sam’s personal journey and experiences as a world-class athlete, participants will gain insight into the challenges, opportunities, and transformative power of sports within the disability community.
Disability in Sport with Guest Lecturer Paralympian Sam McIntosh
-
This session provides an introduction to creating accessible documents in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and PDFs. Participants will learn the fundamentals of digital accessibility, including how to use proper heading structure, write effective alt-text for images, create descriptive links, and ensure sufficient color contrast. The training will also demonstrate how to use built-in and automated accessibility checkers to identify and correct common issues. By the end of the session, attendees will have practical tools to make their documents more inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards.
ZoomIntroduction to Document Accessibility (Google docs, Word, PDF)
-
-
This workshop guides researchers through running Jupyter Notebooks on the Hoffman2 Cluster for interactive data analysis and computing. Participants will learn how to launch Jupyter via the job scheduler, connect securely through SSH tunneling, and manage computing resources effectively. Ideal for users familiar with Jupyter who want to scale their workflows using the Hoffman2 Cluster.
Interactive Computing with Jupyter on the Hoffman2 Cluster – HPC@UCLA Workshop 3 of 5
-
-
Learn practical strategies for building more inclusive websites in this session with Chris Patterson, a web accessibility specialist with over 20 years of experience in digital accessibility and web development. Chris will share her top 10 tips for improving web accessibility, covering common barriers, best practices, and simple changes that make a big difference for users. Whether you are new to accessibility or looking to strengthen your skills, this session will provide actionable guidance to help ensure your web content meets accessibility standards and serves all audiences effectively.
ZoomTop 10 Accessibility Tips with Accessibility Specialist Chris Patterson
-
Python is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to learn and widely used. It is one of the primary programming languages for data science, and when combined with its modules such as NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Pandas, it can be a very powerful tool for numerical computing. The first part of this hands-on series will be a whirlwind introduction to all the basic Python concepts and features you need to get started learning. By the end, you should be able to read and write basic Python modules and programs, and you should have enough Python exposure to continue learning more on your own.
ZoomNumerical Programming with Python, Part I: Crash Course in Fundamentals
-
-
-
-
-
The second part of this hands-on series will introduce you to a few libraries that enable Python to function as a powerful numerical programming language, including NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas. We will focus on a few illustrative problems, such as exploratory statistical analysis and visualization, curve fitting, finding solutions to a set of linear equations, and numerical differentiation and integration, with the aim being to provide a good foundation for further exploration and programming activity. By the end, you will be familiar with the ecosystem of numerical tools contained in these libraries and fundamental ways to use them.
ZoomNumerical Programming with Python, Part II: NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas
-
This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS regression and logistic regression will be considered.
ZoomApplied Survey Data Analysis Using SAS
-
This workshop introduces participants to running batch jobs on the Hoffman2 Cluster using the job scheduler. Attendees will learn how to write and submit batch scripts, request computing resources, monitor job status, and manage output files. This session is essential for researchers aiming to run larger or automated workloads efficiently.
Batch Computing on the Hoffman2 Cluster – HPC@UCLA Workshop 4 of 5
-
-
Do you use GitHub as a code repository? In this workshop you will learn how to expand your GitHub use by integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows. Together we will create a sample GitHub workflow using GitHub actions, we will clone repos and create pull requests, go over stage deployment and user acceptance testing, and how to push to production and merge your code back to the main branch.
ZoomGitHub for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
-
-
This advanced session focuses on improving the efficiency, scalability, and reproducibility of your research workflows on the Hoffman2 Cluster. Topics include job arrays, resource monitoring, environment management (e.g., python, conda), and best practices for data and storage usage. Ideal for users ready to streamline and scale their computational research.
Optimizing and Managing Your Workflows – HPC@UCLA Workshop 5 of 5
-
-
In this workshop you will learn how to leverage AWS Generative AI Services to create an image processing pipeline that leverages AI models in AWS SageMaker. You will learn how to create an event-driven micro service that allows users to drop images into AWS S3 buckets to be preprocessed by AWS Lambda and then processed for inference by Amazon SageMaker..
ZoomBuilding Image Processing Pipelines using AWS Generative AI Services
-
This one hour workshop will guide researchers, students, and staff turn a pre-formed idea for an app into a working prototype they can test with potential users, subjects, or customers.
ZoomBuild your app in an hour (with AI powered coding)
-
-
Harness the Power of GPU’s: Introduction to GPU Programming
Harness the Power of GPUs, an Introduction to GPGPU Programming is a mixture of lectures and labs and introduces all levels of parallelism as well as common approaches for parallelization. This course, hosted virtually by UCLA-IDRE, is free for UCLA researchers/students. Sign Up Now
-
XSEDE HPC Workshop: Summer Bootcamp
This 4 day event will include MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC and accelerators and run June 24-27. We will conclude with a special hybrid exercise contest that will challenge the students to apply their skills over the following 3 weeks and be awarded the First Annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp Championship Trophy – worth up to $8....
-
Code for the Mission
OIP and OIT announce the First Annual UCLA “Code for the Mission” App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty, Staff and Students) to create mobile apps that further UCLA’s mission of Research, Education and Service.
-
Data Intensive Summer School
The Data Intensive Summer School focuses on the skills needed to manage, process and gain insight from large amounts of data. This course, hosted virtually by UCLA-IDRE, is free for UCLA researchers/students.
-
-
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Modern Computing Platforms Using High-Resolution Real-Time Energy Measurements
53-125 Engineering IV, UCLADr. Digvijay Singh will speak. Abstract: Rising energy requirements in a broad range of computing platforms from mobile devices to server systems combined with the proliferation of these high-performance computing platforms has lead to an exigent need for improvement in platform energy efficiency. This requires infrastructure for monitoring of platform energy consumption and methods to...
-
WORKSHOP: MANYCORE COMPUTING: HARNESSING THE POWER OF NEXT GENERATION ARCHITECTURES FOR COMPUTE INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS
Date: July 28, 2014 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Location: 5628 Math Science, Visualization Portal RSVP is required: Please RSVP online Note: If you have a challenge compute problem, and you can outline where your program spends most time, we want to hear from you at this meeting. Please contact us at hpc@ucla.edu to participate. ManyCore Computing:...
-
IDRE’s Visualization and Modeling Expert, Lisa Snyder, Awarded Two NEH ODH grants
Lisa Snyder, IDRE's Visualization and Modeling Expert, has been awarded two National Endowments for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Grants for: The VSim Project Repository and Archive: Interface software and online repository and archive to facilitate distribution and educational use of 3D computer models of historic urban environments. Development of the VSim software, which provides a...
-
-
SAS DS2 Programming: Essentials
DS2 is SAS’s next generation, DATA step-like programming language which enables easy parallel processing and advanced data manipulation. SAS programs which perform computationally complex data processing on large data sets can demonstrate dramatically improved performance when re-written in DS2. The DS2 Programming: Essentials class is designed for experienced SAS programmers who want to leverage new,...
-
Science Visualization Class
Location: 5628 Math Science Building, UCLA Date and Time: Aug 25 2014 - 8:00am - Aug 26 2014 - 2:00pm This two-day in-person training will cover all aspects of visualizing data from a broad variety of domains. The training kicks off with an introduction to visualization followed by best practices when dealing with diverse data,...
-
Code for the Mission Ends
OIP and OIT announce the First Annual UCLA “Code for the Mission” App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty, Staff and Students) to create mobile apps that further UCLA’s mission of Research, Education and Service.
-
-
MMWCON – Registration is OPEN!
The second annual Mobility and Modern Web Conference (MMWCON), presented by UCLA's OIT, in association with higher ed and corporate partners, will take place September 17-19, 2014.
-
MMWCON
The second annual Mobility and Modern Web Conference (MMWCON), presented by UCLA's OIT, in association with higher ed and corporate partners, will take place September 17-19, 2014.
-
Lunchtime Art Talk: N. Dash
Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer's curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art currently on view or from museum collections. This talk will be led by Emily Gonzalez, curatorial associate. N. Dash Hammer Project 2014
-
Immigration Reform: Political and Humanitarian Concerns
Hammer MuseumTickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first-come, first-served basis. Additional Information Experts address the recent surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border from humanitarian and political perspectives. Elizabeth Kennedy, a Fulbright Fellow working in El...
-
-
Hunting for Killer Asteroids: The Past, Present and Future of Near-Earth Asteroid Surveys
Young Hall - Room CS76EPSS invites a distinguished alumnus back to campus once a year to give a lecture. The lecture is open to the public; the reception beforehand is restricted to departmental guests.
-
Introduction to Stata
UCLA IDRE Statistical ConsultingCLICC Classroom CTuesday, October 14 9 a.m. to 12 noon, CLICC Classroom C sign up here . Stata is a powerful and yet easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using Stata. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience...
-
Farmers Market at UCLA
Stop by the market in Bruin Plaza to support local and responsible farmers in the most delicious and healthy way possible! Expect to see some delicious seasonal produce, nut products and dried fruits, as well as some student performers! E3 will also be serving free Fair Trade coffee, selling reusable bags for $2, and collecting...
Free -
Introduction to SPSS
UCLA IDRE Statistical ConsultingThursday, October 16 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., CLICC Classroom C sign up here . SPSS is a very easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. This class is designed for people who are just starting to use SPSS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SPSS...
-
GPU and Hybrid Architectures – Today and into the Future
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesDesign constraints in current processor product lines Processor Market segmentation NVIDIA investments in new architectures and advanced tools Compare CPU design to GPU design, differences, inherently parallel vs a historically sequential The Complex Ecosystem in which Architectures live in , sandwiched between the SW stack and HW on other side. SW role in architecture
-
Intel @ Xeon Phi Coprocessor Developer Training Event
This one-day training will provide software developers the foundation needed for modernizing their code to take advantage of parallel architectures found in both the Intel ® Xeon ® processor and the Intel ® Xeon Phil ™ coprocessor. For more information please see this link. This session will cover: An overview of parallel programming frameworks and optimization guidelines...
-
Introduction to SAS
UCLA IDRE Statistical ConsultingWednesday, October 22 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., CLICC Classroom C sign up here . SAS is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using SAS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SAS...
-
Geoffrey Robinson & Jill Forshee: Perspectives on Timor-Leste
Fowler Museum at UCLAThe island of Timor is divided into an independent sovereign state of Timor-Leste and West Timor, which is part of Indonesia. Timor-Leste’s complex history includes a period of Indonesian occupation from 1975 to 1999. In this two-part program, UCLA professor of history Geoffrey Robinson discusses the recent political history of Timor-Leste and its efforts to...