4-day Introduction to running R, Python, Julia, MATLAB in HPC

  • Course ZOOM: [Zoom URL]
  • Planning zoom: [Zoom URL]

Materials page

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Topics planning

  • (Python)
    • [name=Richel] can we remove this? It is not relevant for this course
  • Julia
  • R
  • Matlab

Spring 2025

Dates

  • 21 Mar 11.00 Onboarding
  • 24 Mar R
  • 25 Mar Matlab
  • 26 Mar Julia

Meeting 29 Jan

Agenda

  • Status
  • Resources
  • Teachers
  • Language Meetings
  • Evaluation
  • Improvements
  • Helper from mathworks?
  • ToDos

Status

Resources

For this course, we already support:

  • Rackham
    • Need o
  • COSMOS
  • Kebnekaise

We need to decide upon also supporting:

  • Tetralith: Yes
  • Dardel: Yes
    • Unsure if Dardel has ThinLinc, Björn checks
  • ALVIS: Wait until next time

Teachers

  • Keep the same?
    • Yes: RB, BB, PO, RP (could use a 2nd person for LUNARC things)
    • No:
  • Changes:
    • RB will do LUNARC, BC will fill in the gaps

Language Meetings

A person that decides when these smaller groups meet:

Language Who
R BB, PO, RB (talk via issues/Matrix)
MATLAB BC, BB, PO, RP (meeting next week)
Julia BC, PO (talk via issues/Matrix)

We’ll have a quick meeting in the lunch breaks of the NAISS support staff meeting at Feb 6 2025.

Evaluation summary

R (6 answers)

You can find these here

MATLAB (3 answers)

  • Good
    • batch from both in-/outside
    • material, format, recorded
    • good examples
  • Improve
    • more batch script examples
  • Low confidence
    • desktop (no-one attended)
    • parall
    • jupyter (no-one attended)
    • add-ons (no-one attended)
    • GPU

Julia

(2 people answered but only followed the recordings)

  • Good
    • material
    • recording
  • Improve
    • more examples/exercises
    • (avoid exam week)
  • Low confidence
    • package
    • environments

Improvements

  • think of having login in on-boarding

  • login as recording as well

  • [name=Richel] (as I am absent, let’s move this to a future meeting? On the other hand, my vote is indicated) Can we vote if we want to convert the course materials to use MkDocs?

    • Yes: RB
    • Neutral:
    • No, not this time: BC
    • Wait until a real decision on what to use in NAISS
      • seems, at least, that mkdocs will be used
  • [name=Richel] (as I am absent, let’s move this to a future meeting? On the other hand, my vote is indicated) if we want to convert the course materials to use MkDocs, can we vote for when?
    • Before next course in April 2025: RB
    • Before next course in end of 2025: BC
    • Before next course in early 2026:
    • Before next course in end of 2026:
  • [name=Richel] (as I am absent, let’s move this to a future meeting? On the other hand, my vote is indicated) Can we vote to if we want to keep/move/remove meeting notes of previous meeting?
    • Keep here:
    • Move to someplace else: RB
    • Remove:
  • [name=Richel] (as I am absent, let’s move this to a future meeting? On the other hand, my vote is indicated) If we want to move the meeting notes to someplace else, can we vote where:
  • [name=Richel] (as I am absent, let’s move this to a future meeting? On the other hand, my vote is indicated) It is common that people are late for this meeting. They probably have good reasons, e.g. meetings ending at 11:00. What about we move the meeting to start 5 minutes later?

MATLAB: TA from Mathworks

  • Mathwork’s Raymond Norris is interested in helping out with a TA.
    • support in shared document YES
    • And give input to material YES
    • also updating config scripts to more streamlined among NAISS resources
      • BC use naiss chat to ask
    • enough time YES
    • are we open YES
    • [name=richel] I vote neutral, let the MATLAB people decide. Else, I’d vote in favor of this, as to try this out

TODOs

  • [ ][name=BC] UPPMAX teacher project
  • [ ][name=BC] check Dardel and ThinLinc and languages

Next meeting

14 Feb 13.00