Introduction

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For teachers: Learning outcomes for this day

  • You can find and load a Python package modules

  • You can determine if a Python package is installed

  • You can install Python packages

  • You can work with isolated environments like conda or venv

  • You can use the compute nodes interactively

  • you can check that you are in an interactive session

  • You can use a Python IDE

Learning outcomes of this session

  • Learners have read what they will learn

  • Learners can find how to download and extract the exercises

  • Learners understand how this day is organized

  • Learners can find their NAISS project

For teachers: Lesson plan

Prior questions: - What is Pyton?

Warning

  • Alvis, Tetralith and Dardel are all phased out (in this order) and will be replaced by Arrhenius

  • More info in the New system Arrhenius page

Why is this course important?

Python, according to the TIOBE index, is one of the most used programming languages used today.

What is Python again?

Python …

  • is a high-level programming language.

  • is a general-purpose programming language.

  • emphasizes code readability

  • uses indentation to indicate structure

  • is dynamically type-checked

  • supports multiple programming paradigms

  • has a comprehensive standard library

  • has thousands of packages (pieces of re-usable code)

  • has official documentation

  • has a forum

Running Python on an HPC cluster allows scientists to run their code that needs either

  1. massive computation,

  2. massive storage space, and/or

  3. storage of sensitive data.

Exercises

Exercise 1: add your HPC cluster to your name

Change your Zoom name, to include your HPC cluster and favorite programming language, e.g. make Sven into Sven [Alvis].

You can do so by right-click on the video of yourself, then click ‘Rename’ to change your Zoom name.

Exercise 2: Q/A and the learning outcomes of today

The goal of this exercise is to find out where to ask questions and what you will learn today.

Go to this form

and fill it in

For teachers: What is in that form

With this exercise, we’ll discover what we’ll learn today.

Give your confidence levels of the following statements, using this scale:

  • 0: I don’t know even what this is about …?

  • 1: I have no confidence I can do this

  • 2: I have low confidence I can do this

  • 3: I have some confidence I can do this

  • 4: I have good confidence I can do this

  • 5: I absolutely can do this!

Give your confidence levels of the following statements below:

  • I can find and load a Python package modules

  • I can determine if a Python package is installed

  • I can install Python packages

  • I can work with isolated environments like conda or venv

  • I can use the compute nodes interactively

  • I can check that I am in an interactive session

  • I can use a Python IDE

Exercise 3: downloading and extracting the exercises

The goal of this exercise is to download a file on your favorite HPC cluster and extract the exercises.

Done?

When done, go to the next session and read up on it.

You can easily navigate there by pressing the ‘Next’ arrow at the bottom of this page, at the right-hand side

(optional) Exercise 4: where is what?

Explore the website of the course. Where can you find the things below?

  • The schedule

  • How to use a text editor

  • The evaluation of this day

  • The NAISS project overview

  • The Arrhenius page