A Friendly Tutorial: Getting Started with the Arkansas Research Platform.

Abstract: The Data Science Core team offers this tutorial available to faculty, staff and students of the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center (AIMRC). This hands-on tutorial is intended to provide foundational training for those getting started with high performance computing and the Arkansas Research Platform (ARP). Topics will cover ARP hardware/software resources, Open OnDemand portal, running jobs on terminal, modules, file systems, moving data, bioimaging software support (ImageJ and ZeroCostDL4Mic) on ARP, with demos. 

Presenters: Hadi Salman, Hao-Minh Van, Xintao Wu

Speaker Bios: 

Hadi Salman is a doctoral student in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and works as an RA in the Data Science Core of AIMRC. His research interests are pattern recognition, signal processing, machine learning, neural network learning techniques, and optimization.

Hao-Minh Van is a doctoral student in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and works as an RA in the Social Awareness and Intelligent Learning lab. His research interests are adversarial machine learning with a focus on fairness and robustness.

Dr. Xintao Wu is a professor and the Charles D. Morgan/Acxiom Endowed Graduate Research Chair in Database and leads the Social Awareness and Intelligent Learning (SAIL) Lab in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at University of Arkansas. He has also worked as the AIMRC data science core director since October 2022. His main research interests are trustworthy AI and big data analysis.