The newly formed Research Computing Office (RCO) Users Group@OSU would like to invite everyone to our upcoming interactive talks. This term the CQLS Bioinformatics Users Group (BUG) and the Supercomputer Townhall will host combined users group meetings. The users group meeting consists of scientists across OSU who meet to discuss computing-related research topics. Meetings are generally informal, consisting of discussions, interactive talks, or short workshops. We meets bi-weekly on Wednesdays (from noon-1pm) in ALS 3005 and no experience is necessary to participate!
The first session of the RCO seminar series begins tomorrow, Wednesday January 14th at 12-1pm. Please join us in-person in ALS 3005 (subject to change in future meetings) or on Zoom.
January 14th at 12pm in ALS 3005 or Kidder 202 - Introducing the RCO Users Group
Agenda:
- Welcome & Semester Kickoff — Ed Davis
- New Default Group IDs — Ed Davis
- DGX Spark: How they work & How to Get Access — Chris Sullivan
- Supercomputer and 3 Storage Service Updates — Dirk Petersen
- Using Claude Code with OSU GPUs — Dirk Petersen
Winter 2026 Schedule:
Jan 14th, ALS 3005: Introducing the RCO Users Group – Ed Davis (CQLS), Chris Sullivan (CEOAS), and Dirk Petersen (UIT)
Jan 28th, ALS 3005: Using scratch space effectively with Slurm - Ed Davis (CQLS)
Feb 11th, Kidder 202: Utilizing GPUs in Genomics: Three Case Studies - Sam Talbot (CQLS); HCIC and storage updates - Dirk Petersen (UIT)
Feb 25th, ALS 3005: Viruses-on-Virus Snitching: The Power and Limitation of Bioinformatics to Study Metabolic Auxiliary Genes- Fabian Wittmers (Microbiology)
Mar 11th, room TBD: HCIC/AI focus, title TBD - Dirk Petersen (UIT)
More info: events.oregonstate.edu and 2 Slack channels (BUG / AI)