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ciml-summer-institute-2025
Repository for the CIML 2025 Summer Institute training materials.
Website: https://na.eventscloud.com/website/83697/home-ciml/
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Contents:
- Description
- Agenda
- Instructors
- All presentations are located in this repository.
Description:
This repository contains all the presentations and training material used for the CIML Summer Institute. To work with the material, remember to CLONE this repo.
Agenda:
All times are in Pacific time.
Preparation Day (virtual) (Tuesday, 06/17/25)
| TIME (Pacific time) | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 1.1 Welcome & Orientation | Mary Thomas |
| 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM | 1.2 Accounts, Login, Environment, Running Jobs and Logging into Expanse User Portal | Mary Thomas |
| 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM | Q&A, Wrap-up | All |
HPC & Parallel Concepts (Tuesday, 06/24/25)
| TIME (Pacific time) | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Breakfast & Check-in | |
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am | 2.1 Welcome and Introductions | Mary Thomas |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Break | |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | 2.2 Parallel Computing Concepts | Robert Sinkovits |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | 2.3 Getting Started with Batch Job Scheduling | Marty Kandes |
| 11:45 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | 2.4 Data Management and File Systems | Marty Kandes |
| 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm | 2.5 GPU Computing - Hardware architecture and software infrastructure | Andreas Goetz |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | 2.6 Software Containers for Scientific and High-Performance Computing | Marty Kandes |
| 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM | Q&A, Wrap-up | All |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Evening Reception - UC San Diego, Seventh College, 15th Floor |
Deep Learning (Wednesday, 06/25/25)
| TIME (Pacific time) | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Breakfast & Check-in | |
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | 3.1 Machine Learning (ML) Overview | Mai Nguyen |
| 8:45 am - 10:15 am | 3.2 Introduction to Neural Networks and Convolution Neural Networks | Paul Rodriguez |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | 3.3 Practical Guidelines for Training Deep Learning on HPC | Paul Rodriguez |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | 3.4 Deep Learning Layers and Architectures | Mai Nguyen |
| 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm | 3.5 Deep Learning Transfer Learning | Mai Nguyen |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | 3.6 Deep Learning – Special Connections | Paul Rodriguez |
| 5:30 PM | Q&A, Wrap-up | All |
Scalable Machine Learning & Large Language Model (Thursday, 06/26/25)
| TIME (Pacific time) | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Breakfast & Check-in | |
| 8:30 am– 10:00 am | 4.1 CONDA Environments and Jupyter Notebook on Expanse: Scalable & Reproducible | Mary Thomas |
| 10:00 am – 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am | 4.2 R on HPC Demo | Paul Rodriguez |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | 4.3 Spark | Mai Nguyen |
| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:45 pm -3:00 pm | 4.4 LLM Overview | Mai Nguyen |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | 4.4 LLM Overview - continued | Paul Rodriguez |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks |
CIML Instructors
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Andreas Goetz, Ph.D. | Research Scientist, Principal Investigator | awgoetz at ucsd.edu |
| Mai Nguyen Ph.D. | Lead for Data Analytics | mhnguyen at ucsd.edu |
| Marty Kandes Ph.D. | Computational and Data Science Research Specialist | mkandes at ucsd.edu |
| Mary Thomas Ph.D. | Director of CIML, Computational Data Scientist, HPC Trainer | mpthomas at ucsd.edu |
| Paul Rodriguez Ph.D. | Computational Data Scientist | p4rodriguez at ucsd.edu |
| Robert Sinkovits Ph.D. | Expanse co-PI & Project Manager | rssinkovits at ucsd.edu |