R for the HPCC

Fill out the ICER Workshop Registration form by April 13, 2023, to register for this workshop.

This non-credit, in-person workshop is provided by Michigan State University’s Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER) and is designed to guide you through adapting R scripts and workflows for use with ICER’s High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC). 

The prerequisites needed for this course are listed below. 

• Existing MSU ICER HPCC account 
• Basic competency with R 
• Basic understanding of the ICER HPCC environment, Linux and SLURM 

The learning objectives for this course are listed below. 

• Understand the R module system on the HPCC 
• Use the command line to generate and execute R scripts 
• Use SLURM to submit R scripts and workflows to the HPCC compute cluster 
• Use the OnDemand web portal to launch RStudio on the HPCC 
• Use the doParallel and pbdMPI packages to parallelize with R  

*** Attendees are required to bring a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to the workshop *** 

Questions? Contact Mahmoud Parvizi at parvizim@msu.edu