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

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Topics planning¶

• Julia
• R
• Matlab

Spring 2025¶

Dates¶

• 21 Mar 11.00-12.00 Onboarding
• 24 Mar R
• 25 Mar Matlab
• 26 Mar Julia

Meeting 20 March 15:00¶

Status¶

• Number of registrations: 45
  • Of which Dardel users: 11
• Where are we?
  • Any panic? Nope
  • MATLAB gives the most problems :-)
  • Emails are sent out to learners
  • Dardel has only 30 ThinLinc licenses. Unknown if this is a problem
  • BB: Can access the MATLAB that works
  • BC: Lots to do with the lessons! Prereqs/parations done? Login almost
  • PO: Testing examples and exercises on the clusters
  • RB: Perfectly on schedule! Todo: logins via ThinLinc/website: doc and video
  • RP: Mosty OK. Prepared for potential shortage of Dardel ThinLinc licenses :-)

Evaluation questions¶

• [KEEP] 1. Overall, how would you rate today’s training event?
  • BB: remove only if all agree. Prefers this over average learning outcome of 12
  • BC: neutral
  • PO: neutral
  • RB: Neutral. I’d prefer to use the average learning outcome of question 12.
  • RP: neutral
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15] 2.Today’s content and feedback to the lecturers (e.g. materials, exercises, structure): – What did you like best?
  • Add suggestions to ‘Extra feedback’
  • BB: remove only if all agree
  • BC: Nudge in last text question
  • PO: agree to nudge
  • RB: Suggest to remove, question 15 is fine for this
  • RP: Agree to nudge in last text question
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15] 3.Today’s content and feedback to the lecturers (e.g. materials, exercises, structure): – Where should we improve?
  • BB: remove only if all agree
  • BC: RM
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove, question 15 is fine for this
  • RP:
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15] 4.Training event organisation (e.g. announcement, registration, …): – What did you like best? – Where should we improve?
  • BB: remove only if all agree
  • BC: rm
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove, unless the course coordinator likes this question
  • RP:
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15]5.Length of teaching today was
  • BB: remove only if all agree
  • BC: nudge in 15
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove, question 15 is fine for this
  • RP:
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15]6.Depth of content was
  • BB: would agree to remove too
  • BC:
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove: there are too many teachers
  • RP:
• [REWORD] 7.The pace of teaching was
  • Reword to: ‘What do you think about the pace of teaching overall?’, then open question
  • BB: would agree to remove too
  • BC: reword!
  • PO: agree to reword
  • RB: Suggest to remove: there are too many teachers. Like to try out the reword
  • RP: Agree to reword
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15]8.Teaching aids used (e.g. slides) were well prepared
  • BB: would agree to remove too
  • BC:
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove: there are too many teachers
  • RP:
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15]9.Hands-on exercises and demonstrations were
  • BB: would agree to remove too
  • BC:
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove: there are too many teachers
  • RP:
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15]10.Hands-on exercises and demonstrations were well prepared
  • BB: would agree to remove too
  • BC:
  • PO:
  • RB: Suggest to remove: there are too many teachers
  • RP:
• [REMOVE, ADD POKE IN 15] 11.How would you rate the separate sessions?
  • BB: I agree to remove 11
  • BC: kind of like this division of topics after the Q12
  • PO: rm
  • RB: Suggest to remove: this is too harsh on a person
  • RP:
• [KEEP]12.Give your confidence levels of the following statements
  • BB: Useful
  • BC: useful
  • PO:
  • RB: Awesome! Love this!
  • RP:
• [REWORD] 13.Did today’s course meet your expectation?
  • Reword to ‘Would you recommend this course to someone else?’
  • BB: Neutral
  • BC: reword
  • PO: reword
  • RB: Suggest to remove: too big overlap with question 1. Would accept reword
  • RP:
• [KEEP] 14.Which future training topics would you like to be provided by the training host(s)?
  • Add policy of things we will not provide
  • BB: Neutral
  • BC: nice to have: keep
  • PO: keep
  • RB: Suggest to remove
  • RP: Nice to have
• [KEEP] 15.Do you have any additional comments?
  • add the pokes from above
  • BB: Neutral
  • BC: YES
  • PO: nice to have
  • RB: Awesome! Love this!
  • RP:

Reasoning BB:

• Problem with removing a lot of the questions is that people will not unprompted say anything about things they like/don’t like in the extra comments. The many questions at the beginning were added to get some input so I would not want to remove 1-5 unless everyone agrees to do so.
• I can agree with removing 6-10, even if they have in the past given us useful info on what to improve - I agree they are less useful with many teachers. We can then see if people say something useful in extra comments and if not we can add some back in. I do find 12. useful but I don’t agree that you can really tell that much about how good the course was from it unless we also check people before the course, so I do think we need 1. for that (1-10 + 13-14 are questions I got from PRACE as officially required when we did some courses as PRACE training, and for lack of better we just reused for our other courses)

Reasoning RB:

Just to post it somewhere, my responses are below. You’ll see I am conservative in asking many questions, as (1) I prefer not to overburden the learners, (2) I’ve seen in my reflections ( https://github.com/UPPMAX/R-matlab-julia-HPC/tree/main/reflections/20241022_richel#summary-of-evaluation-results ) that most of these questions were useless to me.

The OSes we run on our own computers:

• BB: Linux
• BC: Windows, Mac
• PO: Windows
• RB: Linux
• RP: Linux, Windows as back-up

Earlier meetings¶

Meeting 14 March

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