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Navigating KIStorm

Instructors: Knowinnovation Team

Time: 15 min

About Knowinnovation: At Knowinnovation, we believe interdisciplinary teams of scientists who engage in deliberate creativity have the power to solve the world’s most complex challenges. We have been guiding diverse teams around the globe and witnessing the birth of these transformative solutions for over ... well since 2004. The team at KI is dedicated to accelerating scientific innovation. As students of the science of creativity, we specialize in designing and facilitating in-person and virtual events that create cross-disciplinary collaborations and build scientific communities.


The CyVerse Discovery Environment & Data Management

Instructors: CyVerse team

Time: 45 min

About CyVerse: CyVerse provides scientists with powerful platforms to handle huge datasets and complex analyses, thus enabling data-driven discovery. Our extensible platforms provide data storage, bioinformatics tools, data visualization, interactive analyses, cloud services, APIs, and more. CyVerse was created in 2008 by the National Science Foundation and now supports over 100,000 researchers in 169 countries. CyVerse has appeared in more than 1,500 peer reviewed publications, trained over 40K researchers and instructors, and supports $255M in additional research funding by NSF. Led by the University of Arizona in partnership with the Texas Advanced Computing Center and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, CyVerse is a dynamic virtual organization that fulfills a broad mission to enable data-driven, collaborative research.


Opening an Instance in JetStream2

Instructors: Verleye

Time: 30 min

About JetStream2: Jetstream2 makes cutting-edge high-performance computing and software easy to use for your research regardless of your project’s scale—even if you have limited experience with supercomputing systems. Cloud-based and on-demand, the 24/7 system includes discipline-specific apps. You can even create virtual machines that look and feel like your lab workstation or home machine, with thousands of times the computing power.


GitHub Essentials

Instructors: Culler, Tuff

Time: 30 min

About GitHub: GitHub is a web-based platform that provides version control and collaboration features using Git, a distributed version control system. It enables developers to work together on projects, track changes to code, and efficiently manage different versions of the project. GitHub is widely used in the software development industry and is an essential tool for collaborative projects and maintaining code quality.