Experts from San Dieogo SuperComputer Center (SDSC) will present a one day tutorial on big data technologies and on latest SDSC resources. 

The workshop will be composed of lectures and a hands-on session (please bring a laptop if you would like to participate in the hands-on session).

Coffee, refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Please register by entering your name and e-mail: (REGISTRATION CLOSED)

Course material is posted at: https://github.com/sdsc-scicomp/2016-02-22-ucsb

Details and tentative schedule:

MORNING 

• Introduction of San Diego Supercomputer Center - Data Science and HPC  
• Introduction to SDSC HPC Systems - Comet and Gordon hardware (including simple hands-on job submission)
• Introduction to Python 
• Big Picture of Data Science Approaches and Tools
• Description of Hadoop (including hands on with Hadoop)

AFTERNOON

• Introductory Spark for Scientific Computing (including hands on with Spark)
• Introduction of MongoDB with Pymongo 
• Introduction of neo4j
• Brief Discussion of Advanced Spark for Scientific Computing  

Date: February 22, 2016

Time: Tentatively scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Location: Elings Hall, Room 1601

Pre-requisites: Some experience with Linux on a cluster