Self-led Tutorials

These are the tutorial videos for using the GIS Apps on Harvard’s FAS Research Computing (FASRC) Cannon compute cluster, a large-scale HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster supporting scientific modeling and simulation for thousands of Harvard researchers. It includes:

  • Getting Started with FASRC: This video is an introduction on how to access resources of CGA lab on Harvard’s FAS Research Computing (FASRC ). The video describes in details the steps for requesting an account under CGA, login and access to the cluster using VPN, using VDI tools, different data storage options on the cluster etc.

  • Using PostGIS on FASRC:  This video is an introduction to Using PostGIS on Harvard’s FAS Research Computing (FASRC). The video describes in details the steps for Launching, Connecting and Using PostGIS on the Cannon cluster. It is intended for Harvard users with FASRC accounts who would like to use PostGIS spatial database on the cluster for their GIS Data Science and Big Data research. 

  • Using Heavy.ai on FASRC:  This video is an introduction to Using Heavy.ai on Harvard’s FAS Research Computing (FASRC). The video describes in details the steps for launching, connecting and using Heavy.ai on the Cannon cluster. It is intended for Harvard users with FASRC accounts who would like to use GPU based Heavy.ai spatial database on the cluster for their GIS Data Science/Big Data research. 

  • Using Python on FASRC:  This video is an introduction to Using Jupyter Notebook on Harvard’s FAS Research Computing (FASRC). The video describes in details the steps for Launching, Connecting and Using Jupyter notebook on the Cannon cluster. It is intended for Harvard users with FASRC accounts who would like to use Jupyter notebook on the cluster for their GIS Data Science and Big Data research using Python. 

More on FASRC tutorials for geospatial apps can be found here.

 

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