Planning HPC Python at HPC2N and UPPMAX

Materials pages

• material: https://uppmax.github.io/HPC-python/index.html

• source: https://github.com/UPPMAX/HPC-python/tree/main/docs

Links to Python-Julia-R

• [name=Richel] Can we remove this section?

  • The section mentions another course, irrelevant to this one

  • That other course does not have Python anymore

• planning: https://hackmd.io/iHDNS90TRY-HFT7WlxFqVg

• source: https://github.com/UPPMAX/R-matlab-julia-HPC

• material: https://uppmax.github.io/R-matlab-julia-HPC/

Spring

• 4 days

Dates

See the course schedule

• On-boarding 23 Apr <— DECIDED: Removed, 6 out of 6 thought so

• Thu-Fri 24-25 Apr

• Mon-Tue 28-29 Apr

Meeting Friday 28th February 11:00-12:00

Notes from previous meeting, link to schedule on course website

• [RB, decision, MOVE TO THE FUTURE] Let’s decide on the theme we use!

  • Materials:

    • https://www.c3se.chalmers.se/

    • Pro: deeper table of content

    • Con: not everybody likes the look

  • ReadTheDocs (style)

    • Example: Linux-command-line-101 course

    • Pro:

    • Con:

  • [Other suggestions]

• [RB, decision, FUTURE] I’d love to see the markdown version of the website live, as to see my progress. When will replace the Sphinx build by a build that uses the just-voted-for site generator? Let’s collect suggestions first, after which we vote on all suggestions we like

  • Whenever someone has the time to do so: RB

  • [Other suggestions]

• FYI, ‘Day 1’/‘Intro to Python’ course material is done.

  • It has videos/material for 7 clusters (Alvis, Bianca, COSMOS, Dardel, Kebnekaise, Rackham, Tetralith), such as login, and loading a module, creating a script, running a Python script.

    • If you want me to add more clusters, let know (and add me to a project :-) )

  • All communication (i.e. emails sent to participants) in that course -when being stand-alone- can be found here. A difference with ‘HPC Python’ is that all learners of the stand-alone course are requested to apply for a Small Compute project themselves

• FYI, Day 2, hours 1 and 2 (about modules, packages and virtual environments): RB and BC will be co-teaching, inspired by this paper which is the next read in the SciLifeLab Teaching Literature Club. Progress is slow, but steady

• Need to discuss Rebecca’s parts since she was not here last time?

  • Day2: Rebecca takes it

  • Day3: Rebecca takes the whole morning

• Anders Hast will talk 10 mins about IntraVis, then about dimensionality reduction techniques, he will bring his own exercise

• Can we settle Day4? Is settled

• We’ll invite Anders to attend the next meeting: Jayant will do so :-)

• Onboarding has been scratched

• ‘HPC Python’ (this course) uses a shared NAISS project (unlike the stand-alone ‘Intro to Python’ course)

  • LUNARC: Ongoing

    • For ML, there is need for less than 1 GB storage, so that will work :-) (compute projects come with 100 GB storage; only need separate storage project if >100 GB needed)

  • Other centers: done

• We’d enjoy a trainers’ project, but that is for Henric Zazzi and Torben Rasmussen to provide for us.

• We need a trainers’ project for Rackham. Björn will fix that :-)

Next meeting: - Friday 7 March 14:00 - Who is needed? We’ll do the things that affect all of us first, them maybe split up :-) - R/MATLAB/Julia discussion too