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CIQ (Ctrl IQ) Learn at Lunch

CIQ (Ctrl IQ) is the company behind Rocky Linux, Warewulf, Apptainer, and Ascender - open source projects already running in research computing environments across hundreds of universities and national labs. CIQ builds the commercial layer on top of that open source foundation: enterprise support, FIPS-validated builds, compliance automation, and researcher-facing tools designed for the way academic computing actually works.

Topic: Rocky Linux, Warewulf Pro, Ascender Pro, Apptainer, Fuzzball: Research Computing Infrastructure

CIQ (Ctrl IQ) is coming to campus for an informal learn-at-lunch. The CIQ team will walk through their full research computing stack, discuss how institutions are approaching campus-wide site licensing, and leave plenty of time for open Q&A. No sales pitch, just context, honest conversation, and lunch.

Presenters

  • Rose Stein: Account Executive, University & Research Computing
  • Dave Horn: Performance-Intensive Computing & Fuzzball Lead
  • Brian Dawson: Director of Product Management

Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 11am - 1pm
SDSC 279 Training Room

Who Should Attend?

If you manage Linux systems, run HPC clusters, work on compliance, or support researchers who need compute access, this session is relevant to your work.  Bring your questions and your skepticism. Please join us!

Register Now - space is limited!

Lunch will be provide by CIQ

AWS Lunch & Learn Series

Research IT is partnering with AWS to host this series of training workshops. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn directly from an AWS Solutions Architects about leveraging AWS for research computing. Whether you’re a researcher, faculty member, or graduate student, this session will help you optimize your research workflows using AWS services.

Topic: Deploy and Scale AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 
Thursday, August 6, 2026, 11am - 1pm
SDSC 408

Join us for an interactive AWS Lunch and Learn session where you'll discover how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides the purpose-built infrastructure to deploy, scale, and operate your AI agents securely in production — using any framework and any foundation model, with no infrastructure to manage. This hands-on session combines presentation and lab exercises to give you real-world experience taking an AI agent from prototype to production-ready deployment. 

 Session Highlights: 

  • AgentCore Fundamentals: Understanding the modular platform — Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Identity, and Observability — purpose-built to bridge the gap between agent prototype and production 
  • Hands-on Lab: Deploy an AI agent to AgentCore Runtime with serverless scaling, session isolation, and secure tool connectivity 
  • Tool Integration: Connect your agent to APIs, data sources, and MCP servers through AgentCore Gateway — with built-in identity management and authentication 
  • Production Operations: Monitor agent performance with Observability, enforce governance with Policy, and manage agent memory across sessions 

 Who Should Attend: 

  • Developers building AI agents who need a production-ready hosting environment that handles scaling and security 
  • IT professionals exploring how to govern and operate AI agents securely at scale 
  • Anyone curious about AI agents who wants to understand what it takes to move from prototype to production 

Register Now! 

This is a hands-on training session
Lunch will be provided by AWS

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NEW!! AWS / Research IT Office Hours

AWS now offers monthly office hours via Zoom for UCSD researchers. The sessions occur every second Tuesday from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM. During these sessions, an AWS Solutions Architect is available to answer any questions about AWS services, both technical and business-oriented. 

These are casual, drop-in sessions where researchers can freely join without prior reservation to get their questions answered.

During these sessions, you'll be able to:

  • Receive expert guidance on your current or planned AWS implementations
  • Get detailed clarification on AWS services, features, and best practices
  • Share any challenges you're experiencing and receive targeted recommendations

We look forward to connecting with you and to helping you with your AWS needs.

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Microsoft Training Events

Microsoft Azure Lunch and Learn: Microsoft for Researchers (Session 2): Accelerating Discovery with Next-Gen AI

Wednesday, July 22
Time: 11am - 1pm
Location: SDSC 408

Register Now!

Join us for this upcoming Lunch & Learn session with Microsoft Azure on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in SDSC Room 408. 

 Discover how Microsoft’s unified ecosystem can accelerate your research pipeline while maintaining strict institutional compliance and governance. In this second session of our specialized series, we will explore the powerful intersection of cutting-edge cloud tools and academic workflows.

 Key Topics Covered:

  • Next-Gen AI & Agentic Workflows: Dive into Azure AI Foundry and the future of autonomous research agents.
  • AI-Assisted Development: Learn how GitHub and Copilot can optimize software development in your lab.
  • Smart Productivity: Build custom internal tools and streamline documentation using Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio.
  • Compliance & Security: Demystify the security frameworks required to support sensitive and grant-funded workloads.
  • UC Dedicated Support: Unlock exclusive funding opportunities, platform resources, and direct support from dedicated Microsoft technical teams.
Lunch will be provided by Microsoft.

SDSC Training Events

 See SDSC Events (https://www.sdsc.edu/events/index.html) for a full list of upcoming events.

COMPLECS: 10-Event Training Series - FREE!

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is offering a 10-event series of free webinar training opportunities, Comprehensive Learning for End-users to Effectively Utilize Cyberinfrastructure (COMPLECS). Find dates and details and register here!

CIML Summer Institute

The CyberInfrastructure-Enabled Machine Learning (CIML) Summer Institute is a three-day institute that teaches artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning (AI/ML/DL) and LLM concepts to researchers, developers and educators. It will introduce techniques and methods needed to migrate their AI applications from smaller, locally run resources, such as laptops and workstations, to large-scale HPC systems, such as the SDSC’s Expanse supercomputer. Participants will learn through interactive classes and hands-on tutorials using Expanse with provided training accounts.

HPC and Data Science Summer Institute

The HPC and Data Science Summer Institute is a comprehensive week-long workshop that covers introductory-to-intermediate topics in HPC, data science, and artificial intelligence (AI). It aims to give attendees a thorough overview of these topics to accelerate their learning process through highly interactive classes and hands-on tutorials on the Expanse supercomputer.

Carpentries Workshops

  • Topics may include: The Unix Shell, Git Version Control, Introduction to R programming, Python programming, Tidy Data, and SQL

These free Carpentries workshops are designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing and data management skills for research analysis. Please visit the Carpentries page for full event details and workshop registration.

Learn at the Library

View the selection of upcoming workshops offered by the Library to all UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students!