Meeting Fri 18 Oct at 13

Dates

week 43: Mon 21 Oct - Fri 25 Oct:

  • Onboarding: Mon 21 Oct at : Bj+ Ri
  • Python: Tuesday 22nd Oct: Re + Bi + PO ?Ri
  • Julia: Wednesday 23rd Oct BC, P
  • R: Thursday 24th Oct: Ri?
  • Matlab: Friday 25th Oct: Bi + Bj + Pe + Re

General meetings on Fridays(?) every week

Status

  • General
    • registered
      • Around 56 learners. Will be shared later in the Slack today
    • projects
      • BC: Can I be proxy to the NAISS project? BB: BC will be made proxy to the course NAISS project
      • Project codes:
        • UPPMAX: uppmax2025-2-272
        • LUNARC lu2025-7-24
    • prereqs
      • updated
    • syllabus page
    • schedules
      • parallelism 45 min
        • [x] all but python (it has 35 mins now)
        • VOTED: agree to find the time
      • python
        • rethink length of sessions and content? DISCUSS further down
    • automatic checkers
      • RB: can the link checker be turned on again?
        • Yes, we use Issues reports instead of emails
      • spelling: Rather in phase
        • Yes, change to use Issues reports instead of emails
        • [ ][RB will make the change](https://github.com/UPPMAX/R-matlab-julia-HPC/issues/97)
      • syntax: Rather in phase (documentation action)
      • links: misbehaving of github pages
        • [ ][RB checks the link checker](https://github.com/UPPMAX/R-matlab-julia-HPC/issues/98)

  • Different days

    • Python day
      • RB: what of the LUNARC part of the simultaneous session?
        • RP: can show Spyder and Jupyter, OpenOnDemand is already covered
      • BC: remove conda
        • Yes: BB, RB
    • Julia day: nothing to report
    • R day: nothing to report
    • Matlab day
      • BC works with add-ons and local desktop
      • RP: where to put cluster configuration stuff? How does the configCluster command work on the different clusters

  • Have all exercises ready on Monday, so a tarball can be created

Discuss

  • Issue #66 Python Schedule
    • Add 10 mins for parallel
    • RB: volunteers to remove all or some of isolated environments sections:
      • (-15 minutes) Only remove exercise 3: export and import a virtual environment
      • (-15 minutes) Only remove exercise 2 ‘work with Example-gpu
        • This is needed by the session on GPUs
        • BB can change the exercise without this exercise
      • (-30 minutes) Remove exercises 2 and 3
        • DECIDED: R moves these to Extra
      • (-60 minutes) Remove whole section
    • Isolated environment, on conda:
      • UPPMAX: only recommended on Bianca
      • LUNARC: talk to jonas
    • [ ][RB will update schedule and then ping BB](https://github.com/UPPMAX/R-matlab-julia-HPC/issues/66)
  • Issue #57 CoC email
    • Keep Richel’s email, if things go wild, it will discussed in a meeting
  • Other issues?
  • Other things
    • Monday 13:00-14:00 onboarding at onboarding Zoom [Zoom URL]
      • Can be there: probably BB, RB, BC

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