Want to stop waiting days for your analysis to finish? Join us for the BRC Hazel Training — a hands-on, 4-day workshop running May 11–14 from 2:00–4:00 PM. You’ll learn how to run your bioinformatics workflows on NC State’s Hazel HPC cluster, no prior HPC experience needed. We will be heading to Redline for happy hour after each session!
Schedule:
Day 1 (May 11) — Intro to HPC, Hazel & your first job Overview of cluster architecture, logging in via SSH, and submitting your first batch job with the Slurm scheduler — covering resource requests like memory, cores, and walltime.
Day 2 (May 12) — Job parallelization A deep dive into why parallelization matters for bioinformatics, plus a hands-on exercise where you’ll parallelize a real workflow using job arrays and parallel submissions.
Day 3 (May 13) — Job performance analysis & GNU Parallel Learn how to evaluate whether your jobs are running efficiently, identify bottlenecks, and use GNU Parallel to run many tasks concurrently within cluster policies.
Day 4 (May 14) — Software management & data transfer Covers conda environments, container basics (Singularity/Apptainer), and hands-on use of Globus for fast, reliable data transfers to and from Hazel.
Note that you’ll need active Hazel cluster access to participate — we will send instructions to your email a week in advance so you can sign up for that ahead of time if you don’t have it yet!