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Minerva HPC Presentations
Minerva User Group – Upcoming Training Sessions
- The most recent Spring 2025 training sessions have concluded. Further training will be available in Fall 2025, please check back here for updates.
Minerva User Group – Training Sessions
Scientific Computing and Data (SCD) computational scientists provide both introductory and advanced training sessions on how to use the Minerva supercomputer effectively and efficiently. The times and locations will be announced on this website and through the Mount Sinai research email list. Our computational scientists are also available to answer questions by appointment or at the weekly Digital Concierge drop-in. Please see below for archived slides from past training sessions:
- March 27, 2025: Introduction to Data Ark (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 25, 2025: How to Accelerate Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) by Using Parabricks (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 20, 2025: Accessing Minerva via Web Browser Using Open OnDemand (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 13, 2025: Leveraging Large Language Models in Biomedical Research (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 6, 2025: Accelerating Biomedical Data Science with GPUs: Practical Approaches and Tools (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- February 13, 2025: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- February 20, 2025: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- February 27, 2025: Introduction to GPU/AI Resources on Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
Find slide presentations from past training sessions here.
Minerva User Group – Town Hall Meetings
The Minerva User Group (MUG) meets quarterly and on an as-needed basis to review computational and data usage statistics, in addition to providing advice on operational policies and plans. All scientists and researchers who use Minerva are encouraged to participate. Please see below for slides from recent meetings:
- November 2024 – Minerva Town Hall (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 2024 – Minerva Town Hall (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 2023 – Minerva Town Hall (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- May 2023 – Minerva Town Hall (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- December 2022 – Minerva Town Hall (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 2022 – Minerva Town Hall (powerpoint slides)
Find slide presentations from past Minerva User Group Meetings here.
Minerva User Satisfaction Survey
The Minerva User Satisfaction Survey is issued in January each year to collect feedback from users. Previous results can be found below:
- COMING SOON: 2024 Minerva User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
- 2023 Minerva User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
- 2023 Minerva Job Scheduler User Survey Results
- 2022 Minerva User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
- 2022 Data Ark User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
- 2021 Data Ark User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
- 2021 Computational Genomics User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
- 2021 Minerva User Survey Results and Comment Feedback
Find past survey results here.
Archives
Past Training Sessions
- October 2, 2024: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 4, 2024: Introduction to Data Ark (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 9, 2024: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 16, 2024: Introduction to GPU/AI resources on Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 23, 2024: Accelerating Biomedical Data Science with GPUs: Practical Approaches And Tools (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 30, 2024: Leveraging Large Language Models in Biomedical Research (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- November 1, 2024: Open OnDemand (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- November 6, 2024: How to Accelerate Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) by using Parabricks (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 27, 2024: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 3, 2024: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 10, 2024: Introduction to GPU/AI resources on Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 12, 2024: 5 Ways to Get Started with GPUs (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 17, 2024: Accelerated General Data Science in Medicine with RAPIDS, CuPy and Numba (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- May 1, 2024: How to Accelerate Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) by using Parabricks (powerpoint slides) (video recording)March 27, 2024: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 3, 2024: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 10, 2024: Introduction to GPU/AI resources on Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 12, 2024: 5 Ways to Get Started with GPUs (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 17, 2024: Accelerated General Data Science in Medicine with RAPIDS, CuPy and Numba (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- May 1, 2024: How to Accelerate Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) by using Parabricks (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- September 27, 2023: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 11, 2023: Open OnDemand (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 4, 2023: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 5, 2023: Running Jupyter Notebook and RStudio on Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 29, 2023: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- March 22, 2023: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- October 7, 2022: Containerized Environment on Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- September 21, 2022: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- September 30, 2022: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 1, 2022: Introduction to Minerva (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- April 8, 2022: LSF Job Scheduler (powerpoint slides) (video recording)
- September 15, 2021: Introduction to Minerva
- September 22, 2021: LSF Job Scheduler
- September 2021 Trainings: Video Recordings
- April 30, 2021:Singularity Containers
- April 23, 2021: LSF Training
- April 16, 2021: Minerva Basics Training
- April 9, 2021:Minerva HPI-MS Training
- September 23, 2020: LSF Job Scheduler
- September 16, 2020: Introduction to Minerva
- April 18, 2020: LSF Job Scheduler
- April 11, 2020: Minerva Basic Training
- September 18, 2019: Chimera Training
- April 9, 2019: Chimera Training
- September 26, 2018: Advanced LSF Training
Past Minerva User Group Meetings
- December 2021: Minerva Town Hall 2021
- December 2020: MUG Meeting Minerva Town Hall 2020
- December 16, 2020: Minerva Town Hall 2020
- November 14, 2019: Minerva User Group Meeting
- April 1, 2019: Minerva User Group Meeting
- November 29, 2018: Minerva User Group Meeting
- January 18, 2018: Minerva User Group Meeting
- September 26, 2017: Minerva User Group Meeting