High Performance Computing with the R programming language

Below is a brief overview of the course content.

Day 1

Morning: Technical Introduction by HPC admins

• Capabilities of the computing cluster
• How to connect
• Starting a basic job

Afternoon: Quick Start

• Copying and editing files via the command-line
• Interactive jobs, batch jobs
• parallel package, cluster objects, and future

Afternoon: Neovim as IDE

• The Nvim-R plugin to interactively develop in a remote session
• Persistent server sessions using tmux

Day 2

Morning: Breakpoint example

• An MCMC breakpoint detection method as example
• Tasks vs. threads for bigger jobs
• R packages for HPC use: slurmR and clustermq

Afternoon: Workflows

• GNU parallel and GNU make
• Snakemake
• The targets R package

Afternoon:

• Possibility for attendees to work on their own projects with help from the instructors