Autumn 2023

Next Meeting 28 Nov

• Course:

  • registered: 31

• On-boarding:

  • common problems?

• Status:

  • 3.9.5

  • Björn

    • Site-packages added to first lesson

    • problem with mermaid in rst

    • will start to check functioning on Rackham

      • what is done already?

        • install packages

      • Björn checks Dask on Rackham

      • Birgitte checks for the batch session and ML session

Next meeting 21 Nov

• Status:

  • spelling is active

  • Björn

    • updated index, intro, mermaid

  • Birgitte

    • updated index + Q/A

    • one project for UPPMAX

      • others use existing kebne-projects

• To discuss:

  • recording

    • during

    • before

    • after

  • Do we fill these slots with 40 minutes?

    • 13.00 parallel 55

      • live coding

      • exercise

      • dask: chunks, notebook

      • “read more”: starPU

    • break 10

    • 14:05 GPU 40

    • 14:45 15 min break

    • 15:0 ML 35

    • 15: summary & Q/A

• ToDos:

  • Björn

    • adds link check later (steals time)

    • test packages and scripts

    • dask at rackham

  • project numbers

  • Birgitte

    • ML and packages

    • extra exercise

  • Pedro

    • dask at kebnekaise

  • Evaluation

    • skip but inform more than usual in the end

Next meeting 6 Nov 13:00

• Evaluation

• links to StarPU

• interesting with DASK chunks

• ToDo:s

  • BC: Intro

    • a little more hpc

      • diagram

      • mention purposes of the clusters

    • state why we involve two centres

    • mention the editor as a tool for file creation and change

    • more info

      • exercise time

      • objectives

    • More to extra reading!

      • boxes with extra tips

• For the workshop

  • BO:s

    • have voluntary exercise rooms

    • silent room

    • paste messages to BO:s in chat and/or document so one can re-read

      • checking in with students more frequently about if they are done or not

      • let students join the main room again when they are done

  • No time to cover all material

    • More to extra reading!

    • More time on code-along and exercises

Spring courses

• 15-18 Jan UPPMAX intro

• 18 Jan HPC2N intro

• 22-23 Jan Awk

• 13 Feb Singularity

• 12-14 March Py-jl-R

• May (flexible day) HPC-Python

• May/June Programming formalisms

Meeting 30 Oct 13:00

• Helpdesk 1 hour, 16-17

• Have in mind:

  • do recordings before without students

    • or afterwards!

  • have more interaction during lecture

  • no flipped-class room (this time)

  • not show recordings during class time

  • decide like 2 weeks before

  • (zoom recording of oneself, for instance)

  • ToDos: See last meeting

Meeting 24 Oct 15.15

• Suggestions from Björn

  • minimize packages sections

    • links and keypoints from October course

  • although use venvs for course

  • More focus on the HPC

• Discuss

  • same timing: 9-16? yes

  • need for on-boarding: yes

  • recording: Yes but hoe

  • more examples and exercises on how to use in HPC Yes

  • DASK: Yes

  • Are some packages specifically interesting for HPC? Yes

  • Differences between ML packages, which are there, when are they used - with or without GPUs. CUDA. ML on CPU/GPU: Yes

  • Inspiration from:

    • https://enccs.github.io/hpda-python/

    • https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/parallel/

• ToDos

  • embarassingly parallel?

  • Björn updates UPPMAX web

Timings

Session	May23	Suggestions Dec23
9.00 “Syllabus”	10	10
9.10 Intro	10	10
9.20 Load-run + system inst. packages	30	30
9.50 break	15	15
10.05 self-install. packages + isolated	35	25
10:30 batch + arrays	25	35
11.05 break	10	10
11.15 interactive + jupyter (together)	30	30
11.45	Exercises and informal chat + help
Lunch

Session	May23	Suggestions Dec23
13.00 parallel	40	40
13:40 GPU	30	40
14:20 break		10
14:30 ML (incl all exercises)	40	40
15:10 Extra exercise time	15	20
Sum
Q/A	20
sum	150

Lecturer

Session	Björn	Birgitte	Pedro
“Syllabus”+intro	X
Load-run+packages	X
self-inst. isolated		X
batch		X
parallel			X
interactive	X
GPU			X
ML (incl exercises)		X
Exercises (exercises)	several different rooms	x	x
Question session (breakout)	X	X	X
Summary	X	X	X

• Invitation

Next meeting 11 Aug 11-12

• Content changes

  • more HPC!!!

  • more exercises!

  • assume students attend prereqs

  • how to do on other Naiss systems

    • tabs

    • or cheat sheets

• Newletter

  • dates

  • define prereqs

  • modify content text

Meeting 15 June 11:00

• Dates (Oct-Dec)

  • py-R-jl

    • Oct 17-19 (Tue-Thu)

  • Git

    • 13-17 Nov

  • HPC-python

    • Dec 5

    • 1 day!!

  • Courses to have in mind to avoid clashes

    • Python for Scicomp

    • Programming formalisms (Dec?)

    • CR i Gothenburg (Nov/Dec?)

    • Bianca 1 day only (x2)

• Changes

  • more HPC!!!

  • more exercises!

  • assume students attend prereqs

  • how to do on other Naiss systems

    • tabs

    • or cheat sheets