Team Leader:
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Dr. Mona Parizadeh (Ph.D., PDF) Senior Postdoctoral Associate @ UofC Cumming School of Medicine & ICOIA's President
Instructors:
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Farzaneh Rahmdani (M.Sc.) Research Assistant @ UQAM, Bioinformatic Platform Manager @ CERMO-FC, & ICOIA's Member
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Golrokh Kiani (M.Sc.) Bioinformatician @ Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine & ICOIA's Governance Board Member
Teacher Assistant:
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Shokoufeh Manouchehr (Ph.D. Student) CERC Lab Supervisor @ UofC & ICOIA's Member
Organized by: ICOIA (International Community of Iranian Academics)
Funded by: Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Objective: Bridging Gaps in Research Computing for Canadian Persian-speaking Immigrants
Workshop Duration and Commitment:
- Timeframe: Mondays and Thursdays; March 3 to March 27, 2025
- Sessions: Five 75-minute sessions
- Hands-On Projects: Two 2-hour sessions
- Format: Online
- Additional Support: We provide private or small group sessions on demand
Requirements:
- Laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) with administrative privileges
- Access to Wifi
- Excel or any text editor installed (e.g. TextWrangler, Notepad, BBEdit, etc.)
Contact: [email protected]
To ask questions about the course, communicate with the instructor and get informed about other free training courses, become a member of the ICOIA Online School Telegram Group.
We welcome participants who:
- speak Farsi
- live in Canada
- are affiliated with a Canadian university or research institution
- currently work with data or plan to in the future
This course is suitable for:
- Levels: Beginner & Intermediate
- Fields: including, but not limited to:
- Agriculture and Natural Resources
- AI and Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics
- Biological Sciences
- Biomolecular simulation
- Computational chemistry
- Computer Science
- CFD
- Engineering
- GIS
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Research Data Management
- Subatomic physics
- Veterinary
- Language: Farsi
This course covers the following material:
- Introduction to Compute Canada resources
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Linux
- Bash scripting
- Slurm workload manager
- Running jobs
- Research data management
- Data transfer: Globus
- JupyterHub
- Hands-on projects