How the livestream courses work:
- We have livestream with co-teaching and demos
- There is a "Notes doc" for async and anonymous questions. We have experts answering through the whole course, both basic and advance questions are welcome
- There are "exercise breaks" where stream is muted and people work locally on what we just did. You can use the time to help your local attendees.
We do comment on differences between clusters. You are welcome to help us organize the course too. #HPC
Our "#HPC Summer Kickstart" course is 4-6 June 2024 (EU afternoons). Everyone is invited: it's #livestream so yes, *you* can attend.
- Day 1: general #SciComp concepts and practices
- Day 2-3: Running stuff on a cluster (Slurm, batch jobs, interactive, parallel, etc).
It's a first course that everyone should be able to follow. You can re-advertise to your colleagues and be their local guide to your own cluster.
https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/kickstart-2024/
#RSEng #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch
Triton cluster jobs will be suspended at 9:00 on Wednesday (2024 May 15) for maintenance. After it is over, please verify all jobs are OK. This is to avoid having to reserve all nodes and stop all calculations, which we would normally do. See Triton issue tracker /email for details.
Migration to the new cluster has gone OK: we've worked out most of big UI things, so we are back to daily garage only between 13-14. There are plenty of ongoing software installation issues; for these please make a Triton issue in Gitlab so it can be properly tracked. We remain available by chat.
All-day garage to help with the Triton cluster update continues today (Wed, May 8). Tomorrow is a holiday and we may not continue on Friday/next week (back to normal one-hour-a-day).
TTT4HPC today was excellent, and we had a great presentation on containers (and one of our best lessons, period): If you've wondered what they are and how to use them for #SciComp / #RSEng on #HPC/desktop, this is the starting point you need.
Video is processed: https://youtu.be/9nHhB3Tn_BU
Material: https://coderefinery.github.io/ttt4hpc_containers/
Tuesday Tools and Techniques for #HPC is now live on #livestream. Today's lesson are about containers on clusters, and lasts about two hours starting from now (with exercises in the afternoon).
Stream: https://twitch.tv/coderefinery
Course: https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/ttt4hpc-2024/
#SciComp #RSEng #ReproducibleResearch #CodeRefinery
All-day SciComp garage continues today to help with migrating to the new Triton (working hours only, and we'll stop if there are not enough visitors). If it's relevant to you, you should have links in your email or know how to find it. #AaltoUniversity
We updated the alias triton.aalto.fi to the new Triton (see email for info).
If you get a SSH host key warning: https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/blog/2024/ssh-host-key-warnings/
More transition details: https://version.aalto.fi/gitlab/AaltoScienceIT/triton/-/issues/1593 (internal link)
#AaltoUniversity
More than 99% of the performance of a modern computer comes from parallelism. How to exploit it in practice?
Aalto University course "Programming Parallel Computers" is starting on Monday, with close to 400 students already enrolled! All material freely available online!
https://ppc.cs.aalto.fi
"Tuesday Tools and Techniques for HPC" (with @coderefinery people) is starting: it's not a basic course but more advanced cool stories about how we actually use and think about #HPC clusters. As usual, it's a #livestream so anyone can watch: https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/kickstart-2024/ (and register for interaction) #teaching #SciComp #RSEng #carpentries #CodeRefinery
AI Day 🇫🇮 is joining forces with #NordicAIMeet this year, Oct. 21-22 at the University of Helsinki. Save the date and submit your scientific abstract by April 30!
CodeRefinery's #ReproducibleResearch day 4 is on #livestream now: the "reproducible research" lesson and after lunch "social coding and software licenses". Week 2 is now demo based so it's easy to come and go as you'd like. #OpenScience #git #AcademicMastodon: https://www.twitch.tv/coderefinery
@eglerean, from our team, has been accepted into the European Data Protection Board Support Pool of Experts. We hope this will give us more insights into the matters that the EDPB is discussing and allow us to support #AaltoUniversity research better. As always: we support anything related to computation, data, and software.
Summary from #CodeRefinery team session where we discussed the install instructions in detail:
As expected, it became a discussion about usability and how to help a broad audience use Git - which these days is *not* pedantically from the command line.
We'll have some follow-up posts where you can help us by giving some thoughts.
#AaltoUniversity: Want a simple but through and usable description of university-recommended places to store files? Check out this new page, that is sorted by use cases and is bold enough to recommend (with explanations) a few things for each case:
https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/what-file-storage-to-use-when
(this list is general use and not focused on SciComp or HPC work)
@ShravanVasishth If someone is in the EU we can send some. Send a postal address by a message and what/how many you would like. No promises though,band limited offer.
The design is also available for self-printing or other re-use: https://github.com/AaltoSciComp/aaltoscicomp-graphics
We recently got more stickers, this time focused on recognizing the whole #SciComp community at #AaltoUniversity:
- "SciComp Garage" stickers to tell about our daily recurring help session.
- "DO disturb" to recognize those who go above and beyond to help their colleagues - since they are the under-appreciated foundation of our work.
#AaltoUniversity SciComp people: we recently had a "user group meeting" where we described some recent activities and asked for input on the future. If you missed it, you can read the slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRGmkVhMYrZkGapsXAky7JYda2b-cP3uJ4tGhDzpzcVHX9VXINwnUhUVxutRbgW85be1kCy-Rbj8bwM/pub
#AaltoSciComp
@ShravanVasishth Thanks! We teach and most of our courses are available to anyone in the world. We'd be happy for others to join is in the teaching, too.