13–16 Sept 2021
Zoom
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Programme

All session times are CEST

Computerome (13 September)

Presenter: 

  • Darío Carballido, Computerome, DTU

Scope

  • System overview: HPC and Secure Cloud

  • Organization of HPC projects

  • Software collection

  • Requirements/restrictions can be provided per case by opening a ticket to the sysadmins

Schedule

  • 09:00 -10:30 Presentation/Demo and Q&A

  • 10:30 - 11:30 Lunch break

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Presentation and Q&A

Website: www.computerome.dk 


CSC Sensitive Data Services for Research (14 September)

Presenter: 

  • Francesca Morello, Customer Liaison Officer (Sensitive Data Services)

Summary

CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science, recently released  the beta version of Sensitive Data Services for Research:

 

  • Sensitive Data Desktop: gives you secure access over public internet to a virtual private cloud, and allows secure analysis of sensitive data remotely from users’ own computer via a web browser.

  • Sensitive Data Connect is a simple web and command line interface that enables sharing and uploading encrypted sensitive data for analysis in SD Desktop.

These services are provided free of charge for Finnish researchers and their collaborators, according to CSC general terms of use.

The webinar will give an introduction to the services and a brief demonstration of generating a CSC account, providing the correct documentation and  launching the private computing environment.

For more information  and feedback please contact: servicedesk@csc.fi (email subject: Sensitive Data Services)

Schedule

  • 12:30 -13:30 Presentation/Demo

  • 13:30 Q&A

Website: https://research.csc.fi/sensitive-data


 SNIC Bianca (15 September)

Presenter: 

  • Marcus Lundberg, UPPMAX HPC Computing Center & NBIS, Uppsala University

Scope

  • Bianca Overview: a virtual HPC cluster built on OpenStack

  • Getting access: the SNIC SUPR, getting an UPPMAX user account, logging in

  • Data import/export: the Bianca Wharf

  • Getting started: software modules, Conda

  • Heavier analysis: interactive and batch jobs

Schedule

  • 09:00 - 10:00 Presentation/Demo

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break

  • 10:15 - 11:00  Q&A

Website: https://www.snic.se/resources/compute-resources/bianca/ 


Services for sensitive data (TSD) (16 September)

Presenter: 

  • Eirik Haatveit, Services for Sensitive Data (TSD), University of Oslo

Scope

  • Service introduction

  • Security/privacy restrictions

  • Service contracts/agreements 

  • Services/service components

  • How to use the service components

Schedule

  • 12:00 -13:30 Presentation/Demo

  • 13:30 - 14:00 Coffee break

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Presentation/Demo and Q&A

Website:  https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/sensitive-data/