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Video tutorials

All CARC recordings live on the UNMCARC YouTube channel. The essentials are embedded below, and the most-watched tutorials are also embedded directly on their matching guide pages.

QuickBytes: Introduction to Computing at CARC

A short-episode series covering everything a new user needs, in order. Watch it straight through here, or jump to an episode:

Episode Length Related guide
Intro to the UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing 5:53 About CARC
Creating an Account 4:58 Getting started
CARC Project Management with ColdFront 12:50 Getting started
Annual Project Review 7:45 Getting started
Logging into CARC Systems 12:48 Logging in
Slurm Job Scheduler 1:24:06 Introduction to Slurm
Storage Systems 13:11 Storage and backups
Transferring data 21:56 Transferring data
Environment Modules 6:04 Environment modules
Conda environments 12:40 Managing conda environments
X11 Forwarding 10:41 X11 forwarding
Parallelization 1: An Example Problem 16:14
Parallelization 3: GNU Parallel 28:01 GNU Parallel
Parallelization 4: The Message Passing Interface (MPI) 24:27 MPI from JupyterHub
Parallel R with Future Parallel R with the future package
Computational Chemistry: Avogadro and Gaussian 28:38
CS491/591: SimCov Compilation and Submission 8:14 SimCov

CARC Annual Meeting 2026

Recorded talks from CAM 2026:

CARC Annual Meeting 2025

Recorded talks from CAM 2025:

Research talks and center events

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