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XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data will be held on Sept. 12-13
XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data will be held on Sept. 12-13
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XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop, to be held September 12-13, 2017.

This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform.

The workshop features plenty of hands-on exercises - participants will need to bring a laptop. HCC staff will be on-hand to assist with questions or issues that may arise.

Register via the XSEDE Portal.

Agenda:

Tuesday, September 12:
10:00 - Welcome
10:25 - Intro to Big Data
11:00 - Hadoop
11:30 - Intro to Spark
12:00 - Lunch break
1:00 - Spark
2:30 - Spark Exercises
3:30 - Spark
4:00 - Adjourn

Wednesday, September 13:
10:00 - Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
12:00 - Lunch break
1:00 - Deep Learning with Tensorflow
3:30 - Bridges: A Big Data Platform
4:00 - Adjourn