Advanced HPC Cluster Training on November 20
One hour on the cluster, with your hands on the keyboard
The 49ers HPC Club at UNC Charlotte is running a free workshop called Advanced HPC Cluster Training. The workshop meets on Friday, November 20, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM, in Room 408 of the Session Family Building, the building we used to call Bioinformatics. Researchers and students are both welcome. Bring a laptop.
What the hour covers
The workshop runs four modules. The first covers resource allocation, which means asking the scheduler for the cores, memory, and time a job actually needs. The second introduces multi-threading and multi-processing, so a job can use more than one core. The third covers program installations, the step that stops most people on a cluster where they cannot install software as root. The fourth covers the Data Transfer Node, the right way to move large files on and off the system.
A hands-on session closes the hour. Participants run live code examples on the cluster instead of watching someone else type.
Why this workshop is worth an hour
Most of the work in our lab runs on a cluster. Students who learn to request resources well finish their analyses in hours instead of days, and they stop wasting allocation on jobs that sit idle on 32 cores they never use. These are the habits that separate a frustrating first semester from a productive one, and nobody is born knowing them.
The skills also travel. The scheduler commands, the job scripts, and the data transfer habits carry over to any academic cluster and to cloud computing. Students who can show this experience on a resume have an easier time in interviews for data-heavy jobs.
How to join
Register through the event page on NinerEngage. Questions and RSVPs go to Anastasiia Duchenko at aduchenk@charlotte.edu. The club also keeps a page at ninerengage.charlotte.edu/organization/hpc for anyone who wants to join beyond this one workshop.
Coffee and snacks are part of the plan. Come early, meet the club, and ask them anything.
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