Meeting notes

Meeting October 10 at 13:00

Agenda

• Coming session:
  • No onboarding
• Evaluation of last sessions
• Schedules and teachers
• Possible updates/plans

Evaluation of last sessions

• Past evaluation results
  • Bianca Basic: Evaluation, R's Reflection
  • Intermediate Bianca: Evaluation, R's Reflection
  • Suggestions from these:
    • Lowest confidences were in 'building from source' and 'container'. Do these sessions need more time?
    • Learners indicate that the Slurm part had too little time. Can we add time there?
  • If sessions need more time, what needs to be removed?
    • D: Slurm less talk, more exercise
    • [Move to future meeting] R suggests to move IDEs to Basic Bianca
    • R suggests to remove scheduled time for Q&A at the end
      • B+D+R: have a more interactive day helps reduce Q&A time

Schedules and teachers

Changes, as discussed in t:

• Remove NAISS sens, 30 more minutes
• Reduce/remove Q&A, 10-15 more minutes

This is the living schedule

• Teachers + timings
  • intermediate
    • introduction to workshop
    • 9.10 Transferring files to and from Bianca (Richel -> Pavlin) 50+20
      • incl login??
      • rsync etc...
    • 10.35 Slurm jobs part 2 (Diana -> Richel) 25+45
    • Lunch
    • Software and packages installation on Bianca (Björn)
      • c. 50 (flex) +40
      • more time
      • include containers
    • ~14.40 IDEs on Bianca (new) 10+35 (flex) Richel + Björn C<---- 45 mins is new
      • (mention the desktop env: XFCE,gnome etc)
      • rstudio (good practices with RStudio)
      • jupyter (expand)
      • vs code on bianca
      • Votes (parallel)
        • DRP focus on one (learners vote, briefly on the other 2) <--- WINNER
    • 15:35 Summary 5
    • Evaluation 10 m
    • Q/A reduced 10

Possible updates

• R has put the evaluation questions here. This involved some guesswork from the course material. Go ahead and modify it if it is does not match your learning objectives
• B should we do the evaluatuion at the start too?
  • Vote:
    • [VOTED] Yes: BC +RB
    • Neutral: PM

Todos

• Björn
  • Updates schedule in io
    • include prevaluation

  • Respond to https://github.com/UPPMAX/bianca_workshop/tree/main/evaluations/20241111

• Pavlin
  • Respond to https://github.com/UPPMAX/bianca_workshop/tree/main/evaluations/20241111
• Richel:
  • include confidence questions in the introduction, 'pre-valuation', needs 10-15 mins in the schedule

September planning

When?

• DI:

  • I prefer week 46 (Nov 11-15),
  • but week 45 (Nov 4-8) would work too, if needed, Python4SciComp.
  • I can accomodate for some other dates if these weeks do not work.
  • I cannot week 48 (Nov 25-29), Git with HPC2N.

• BC:

  • Due to maintenance 6 Nov I suggest:
  • week 46, 11-15, but Monday-Wednesday
  • because progform week after
  • no onboarding
• we DECIDED on 11 Nov

Remove sens

• [DECIDED] Yes: RB, PM
• only if marcus cannot: BC

Richel's Reflections

See here.