Research Computing Trainings & Video Library

Our colleagues from Research Data Services at the Columbia Libraries also offer on-demand workshops and class visits on applications for a range of popular tools, including R, Stata, Git.

RCS/HPC Video Library

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Peer Institute & Industry Events/Resources

RCS maintains relationships with our vendor partners and peer institutions to help support research and education, including fellow Ivys and R1 Universities, Intel, NVIDIA, AWS, Globus, SnapGene, GraphPad Prism and more. Let us know if you want us to look into arranging a webinar on a specific topic for our Columbia users!

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On-demand: MATLAB Self-paced Online Courses

Columbia's MATLAB subscription includes free access to MathWorks' self-paced online courses. Some options include:

  • MATLAB Fundamentals provides a comprehensive introduction to standard features.
  • Computational math courses use MATLAB to combine math applications with computing technologies.
  • Deep learning  
  • Machine learning
  • Data visualization

Course certificates are available upon completion!

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NVIDIA Developer Program

Join for free software, technical documentation, learning resources, plus peer and domain expert help.

Other key NVIDIA resources

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Free Higher Education GCP Classes

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

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