11/25/2025
By Steve Athanas and Kim Holloway

UMass Lowell’s Information Technology and Office of Research and Innovation are hosting a series of workshops to introduce researchers to the power of shared high-performance computing (HPC) through Unity, the university’s shared computing environment:

Workshop Series Exploring Unity, High Performance Computing Environment

Date: Monday, Dec. 15
Time: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: University Crossing, Room 490

Designed to meet participants at every level of experience, the sessions will dive into cluster computing capabilities, the benefits of this centralized resource, and how it helps the research community harness faster, more efficient, and scalable computation.

Please register for each session individually (join us for one or all three!):

Accelerating Your Research with Cluster Computing
9 – 10 a.m.
Audience: For those who want to better understand how and why centralized computing resources work.
Attendees will leave with a better understanding of the benefits of using shared “CRF-style” resources instead of managing individual systems for compute.

Onboarding Tutorial 
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Audience: For those new to Unity or HPC, or those with some HPC experience who are unfamiliar with Unity or Slurm.
Attendees in this hands-on session will gain training and experience accessing Unity. There will be time for questions and discussion around specific use cases.

Compute While You Sleep 
2 – 3:30 p.m.
Audience: For intermediate users
Attendees will leave with intermediate knowledge of using Unity. The session will focus on moving from interactive jobs to batch jobs, job arrays, pipelines, and beyond. There will be time for questions and discussion around specific use cases.

About the presenter: Georgia Stuart is an HPC Research Scientist and Facilitator at UMass Amherst. She’s particularly interested in HPC workflows, how people interact with HPC systems, and uncertainty quantification. Georgia received her doctorate in mathematics from University of Texas (UT) Dallas where she worked on computationally efficient uncertainty quantification for seismic inversion. She was a Peter O’Donnell, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin, where she worked on oil spill uncertainty quantification for the Computational Hydraulics Group. Georgia spends her free time playing with her young son, taking long walks with her family, and practicing calligraphy and lettering.

Please email RD@uml.edu for any questions. Thank you!