List of courses on TALC

Interested in using TALC for your course?

If you are the instructor for a course that could benefit from using TALC, please contact us at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca to discuss your requirements.
To ensure that the appropriate software is available, student accounts are in place, and appropriate training has been provided for your teaching assistants, it is best to start this discussion several months prior to the start of the course.

Information

• TALC Terms of Use: https://rcs.ucalgary.ca/TALC_Terms_of_Use

• TALC Guide: https://rcs.ucalgary.ca/TALC_Cluster

A New Course Checklist

At least three (3) weeks before the course.

• Please contact us about the course you are going to teach using TALC.

• Provide us with the course ID, name of the course, and the name of the instructor for the course.

• Also provide us with the beginning and the end dates you need the access to TALC for this course.

This is important as all the course data, including students' and instructors' home directories will be deleted 7 days after the end date of the course.

Soon after:

• Request accounts on TALC for yourself, and TA who is going to be helping with the course.

Please note that

it is instructor's responsibility to make sure that the software required for the course is available and works on TALC.

if special software is required for the course it is recommended that the instructor contacts us well before the course starts to allow enough time for installation and testing of the software.

• If you are planning to share data with the students, request a shared directory for the course.

There will also be a unix group on TALC to control access to the shared directory.

The directory name and the unix group will probably have the same name, like "course601-21".

Your and TA's accounts have to be added to the access group.

The shared space on TALC is shared between all classes who have group directories. Please be mindful of how the class utilizes the space as this will affect this class any any other class that is accessing the work directory.

• The data for courses run on TALC is deleted once the course is over. So that the shared directory and software for a course have to be setup every time the course is run.

If you need to build / have some specific software on TALC for the course, please start early.

It needs to be installed and tested well before the course start, so that the solution can be found in case something does not work.

• If you need help with setting up the software for the course, let the RCS support know at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca .

• During the course, if students have difficulties with using TALC, the TAs are expected to help the students.

If the TA cannot solve the issue, we prefer that the TA contact us rather than the student who has the problem.

If TAs need training, this has to be arranged before the course with us (RCS);

• As soon as you have a list of students who are going to take the course, please send it to support@hpc.ucalgary.ca .

The list has to have students' names as well as associated UofC email addresses.

The accounts will be created and added to the access group.

• Please communicate to the students that the TALC accounts are intended solely for the current course:

The user accounts are short-term and remain valid only for the duration of the coursework.

All user accounts will be deleted after the course end date as per the RCS records.

All data stored in the user /home directory and shared directory (if any) will be deleted.

• If you have any concerns or questions about running a course on TALC please let us know.

Courses

Current Courses

Fall 2024

• PHYS 605 – Advanced Data Analysis, Claudia Gomes da Rocha (Sep 3 – Dec 24).
• ENSF 619.02 - Advanced Data Analytics, Ethan MacDonald (Sept 1, to Dec 31, 2024).
• MDSC 523- AI Applications in Health, Tahsin Hassan Rahit (Sept 3- Dec 16, requested on Aug 29th,2024)

Spring 2024

• MDPR 613 – AI Applications in Health, Jacqueline Harris (requested on Mar 20, May 1 – July 31).

Winter 2024

• SENG 471 - Software Requirements Engineering, Gouri Ginde (requested on Mar 13, course ends on Apr 22nd)
• ENCI 619-05 - Advanced Hydrological Modelling, Prof. Martyn Clark
• DATA 622 / MDCH 615 - Joon Lee, Yves Nsoga (TA).
• MDSC 301 - Introduction to Bioinformatics, Tatiana Maroilley.
• MDSC 201 - Applied Bioinformatics, David Anderson, Kalum Ost (TA).
• PHYS 381 - Computational Physics I, Claudia Gomes da Rocha, TAs: Armin Tabesh, Farzad Karimi.
• MDSC 519 - Advanced Bioinformatics, David Anderson (requested Jan 2024).
• ENEL 645 - Data Mining and Machine Learning, Roberto Souza (requested Jan 2024, starts Feb 10th).

Fall 2023

• ENSF 619.02 - Ethan MacDonald
• MDSC 523 - AI applications in health, David Anderson

Past Courses

Spring 2023

• MDPR 613 - AI Applications in Precision Health, Dr. David Anderson and Dr. Jaqueline Harris

Winter 2023

• KNES 381 - Computer Applications in Kinesiology,John Holash

• DATA 622 / MDCH 615 -- Machine Learning for Health Data Science, Dr. Joon Lee, TA Maruthi Mutnuri.

• MDSC 301 - Introduction to Bioinformatics, Tatiana Maroilley

• ENEL645 -- Data mining & Machine Learning, Roberto Souza.

• ENSF 511 - Industrial Internet of Things Systems and Data Analytics, Hatem Abou-Zeid

• GLGY 605 - Groundwater Flow and Reactive Transport Modelling, Benjamin Tutolo (requested Jan 2023)

• MDSC 519 - Advanced Bioinformatics, David Anderson (requested Jan 2023)

• BMEN 415 - Sensor Systems and Data Analytics, Ethan MacDonald (requested Jan 2023).

• ENSF 612 - Engineering Large Scale Data Analytics Systems, Dr. Gias Uddin (requested Feb 2023)

Fall 2022

• MDSC 523 - AI applications in health, David Anderson.

• ENSF 619.03 - Advanced Data Analytics, Ethan MacDonald.

• ENSF 612 - Engineering Large Scale Data Analytics Systems, Dr. Gias Uddin, TA Ajoy Das.

Winter 2022

• MDPR 613 - AI Applications in Precision Health, David Anderson (Mar 2022)

• ENSF 511 - Industrial Internet of Things Systems and Data Analytics, Hatem Abou-Zeid

• MDSC 301 - Introduction to Bioinformatics, Tatiana Maroilley

• GLGY 605 - Groundwater Flow and Reactive Transport Modelling, Benjamin Tutolo (requested Nov 2021)

• MDSC 201 - Applied Bioinformatics, David Anderson (requested Nov 2021)

• MDSC 519 - Advanced Bioinformatics, David Anderson (requested Nov 2021)

• DATA 608 - Developing Big Data Applications, Leanne Wu (requested Nov 2021).

• BMEN 415 - Sensor Systems and Data Analytics, Ethan MacDonald (requested Dec 2021).

• CPSC 601.04 - High Performance Scientific Computing and Visualization, Usman Alim (late request, Jan 2022);

• ENEL 645 - Data Mining & Machine Learning, Roberto Souza (late request, Jan 2022);

Fall 2021

• ENSF 619.01 - Ethan MacDonald
• MDSC 523 - David Anderson
• ENSF 619.02 - Roberto Medeiros de Souza
• ENSF 612 - Gias Uddin and Ajoy Das

2021 Winter

• GLGY 605 - Benjamin Tutolo
• BMEN 415 - Ethan MacDonald
• MDSC 201 - David Anderson

2020 Spring

• Bioinformatics workshop Q Zhang
• Bioinformatics workshop Q Zhang

2020 Winter

• DATA 623 R Walker
• GLGY 605 B Tutolo
• DATA 608 P Federl
• ENSF 612 J Kaur

2020 Winter Block Week

• MDSC 395 D Anderson

Resources

Academic Schedule

• See https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/academic-schedule.html for the UofC 's academic schedule.