KIR - Research Computing Training Catalogue

This catalogue serves as a central repository for training resources and educational materials developed by the Research Computing team at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford to support computational research and skill development.

For any question or enquiries related to this catalogue, please contact KIR Research Computing Manager

Additional Training Resources by OxRSE

For additional intermediate- to advanced-level Research Software Engineering training resources, as well as selected introductory materials focused on specific programming languages, please refer to the catalogue maintained by OxRSE at https://train.rse.ox.ac.uk/material.

Introduction to the Linux Command Line

Explore the foundations of working efficiently in a Linux environment through the command line interface. This beginner-level workshop introduces essential commands for navigating the filesystem, managing files and processes, and automating tasks

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Introduction to Git and Github

How to manage code and collaborate effectively using Git and GitHub. This workshop introduces version control concepts, repositories, branching, commits, and pull requests, providing the skills needed to track changes and contribute confidently to modern software projects

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Introduction to Apptainer

Introduction to using the Apptainer container platform. Apptainer is particularly suited to running containers on infrastructure where users don’t have administrative privileges, for example shared infrastructure such as High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters

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Introduction to Snakemake

Snakemake is a powerful workflow management system designed to create reproducible and scalable data analyses through simple, human-readable Python-based syntax. It automatically detects dependencies, parallelizes tasks efficiently, and can seamlessly scale from a single workstation to computing clusters and cloud environments

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GPU Profiling

User-level guide for profiling GPU usage in Slurm jobs without requiring sudo/admin permissions.

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The Basics of Python Packaging

Quick how-to guide on what you minimally need to do to adopt the modern Python packaging standards

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