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High Performance Computing for BIO726P Master’s Students

On Thursday October 2, from 2pm to 5pm at Queen building, 83 students from the MSc in Bioinformatics (BIO726P) participated in a hands-on High Performance Computing (HPC) training session at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), using the Apocrita HPC cluster. The session began with an interactive Menti poll to gauge students’ prior knowledge of HPC and Apocrita. Menti provided an anonymous and engaging way to collect responses. We asked seven basic questions, including: “What does HPC mean?”, “What is a cluster at QMUL?”, "Have you ever used an HPC cluster before?", and one of the most thought-provoking:

The Storage Workshop

On May 16, 2025, Peter Childs, Daniel Howard and Julita Inca ran a storage workshop at QMUL. The purpose was to educate QMUL researchers in storing and securing access to their data which is a critical part of their daily research. We outlined the methods available to achieve this.

High Performance Computing for the Blizard Institute

On May 7, 2025, from 2pm to 5pm in the Sofa Room at Dept, researchers from the Blizard Institute advanced their understanding of Apocrita, the High Performance Computing cluster at Queen Mary University of London. The hybrid session included six participants in person and four joining online via Microsoft Teams. A group photo was taken during a coffee break, showcasing their enthusiasm and new souvenirs.

First IT Student's Festival

On April 11, 2025, we held the very first IT Students’ Festival at the Mile End Library at Queen Mary University of London. The event was a great success, offering us a valuable opportunity to engage directly with students, answer their questions, and deliver a seminar series on key IT topics.

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High Performance Computing for the Wolfson Institute Population Health

If you go to run every morning, or drive to work on weekdays, you should know that every journey is unique. For me, every High Performance Computing (HPC) workshop I deliver has its own personality. The audience, the material tailored to each audience, the interactions and questions, and of course, the energy of the community. Last Thursday September 26, an HPC workshop for the Wolfson Institute of Population Health was held from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Dept. W Room 1.20, 1.21 and 1.22. The seminar includes, as usual, presentations, coffee break, quiz and treats, and the photographs to make it memorable.

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High Performance Computing for SEMS

On August the 9th, the High Performance Computing for the School of Engineering and Material Science workshop was held at the Sofa Room at Dept. W. Around 16 researchers who already use Apocrita attended the event. The event covered six topics: Linux commands for Apocrita, HPC clusters at QMUL, Launching HPC jobs, Applications for SEMS, Using GPUs, and Miscellaneous.

Linux for Apocrita Workshop

On May 3, 2024 Queen Mary University of London conducted a workshop to introduce our students to Linux at the Department W building in Whitechapel. Students from a variety of programmes at Queen Mary attended the workshop. Many students who participated are working towards Masters and PhD degrees.

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HPC Leap Day Event 2024

The High Performance Computing (HPC) team organised an event to celebrate February's bonus day this year. The goal was to introduce the HPC team members to the research community at QMUL, and to have the opportunity to ask the HPC expert in-person about any issue related to the performance of HPC jobs in Apocrita.

Here is a quick summary of what we covered in the session:

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Apocrita Workshop

We held a 2-hour HPC workshop last Friday, December 15th at Dept W room 3.05. We arranged an agenda in coordination with the research student at QMUL, Peter Alexander Lock. It covered the generalities of Linux, accessing Apocrita, submitting jobs, and linux commands for Apocrita.

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Let's talk about Linux and High Performance Computing

On November 15th, our HPC team organised an event called “Let’s talk about Linux and HPC”, which focused on giving an overview of HPC at QMUL. The conference was open to the public and published on Eventbrite.

Approximately 30 people were in attendance between organisers and online or onsite attendees that came to our 2-hour event in the Engineering building at the Mile End campus. During the conference, attendees shared opinions, thoughts and suggestions for future workshops dealing with Linux, Ubuntu and setting up scripts in more detail. They were able to express themselves with the help of mentimeter.