This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar 'Getting started with GPUs for bioinformatics'. This webinar took place on 22 September 2026.

Description: 

GPUs are hot property in biology! GPUs are speeding up bioinformatics workflows and making deep learning deep learning tools like AlphaFold possible.

Join us for a practical webinar that will get you working with GPUs without the steep learning curve. This webinar will get you primed to accelerate your science using this new toolkit and will give you a solid grounding in: 

• How to access and use GPUs on Setonix 

• Leveraging existing tools

• Porting tools from CUDA to HIP

• Writing GPU compatible containers

• Troubleshooting common issues

This webinar draws on real world use cases from Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, the home of the largest GPU cluster in Australia.

Speaker: Dr Sarah Beecroft, Life Sciences Supercomputing Specialist, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

Host: Rahul Ratwatte, Communications Officer, Australian BioCommons

Training materials:

Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.

Files and materials included in this record:

• Event metadata - Zenodo - Event metadata - Webinar - Getting started with GPUs for bioinformatics.pdf: Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.

• Presentation slides - 2026-08-22 - Getting started with GPUs for bioinformatics - Dr Sarah Beecroft.pdf: slides presented during the webinar.

Files and materials shared elsewhere:

• Recording of the presentation on the Australian BioCommons YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/KL8M_g5SKsU