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.
A few weeks ago, we had a course on shell scripting with a semi-focus on scientists, #RSEng, and #HPC people. Materials (part 2 here): https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/linux-shell/
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLVmS9rf3nOXyXh0TEgGhS7bUdOT0dGg
On Friday, we'll have a lightweight Research Software #RSEng talk, where we'll demonstrate extracting a component out of some software, and releasing it as a separate #PyPI package. This is a quick informal thing, more "discussion-demo" than a talk. Anyone is welcome to join: Online, Friday 10:00 EET, info at https://scicomp.aalto.fi/tech/
#SciComp #Python #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch #AaltoUniversity #CodeRefinery
@jcolomb Do you mean `git instance`? And downloading the videos from here?
About downloading: right now they are stored chunked so that it's hard to get a single download (but I can change it so it's not chunked). I had considered asking someone to build a web interface to present the videos.
Aside: I should embed the .srt subtitles into the .mkv files. Not done now due to historical reasons only.
How can you access our #PythonForSciComp videos without YouTube? Via this repository, #GitAnnex to distribute raw videos around. One of those places is a publicly accessible object storage, and with a few commands you can download the processed videos. https://github.com/coderefinery/video-processing/
Problem: yes, git-annex installation is a barrier. This isn't designed as a primary access method but a backup.
#PythonForSciComp 2023 is done, and it was probably one of the best instances so far. Videos are on YouTube; stay tuned for follow-up, "how we did videos so quickly", and the way to view them without YouTube.
As always, all materials will stay public and we welcome contributions for next year.
https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/python-for-scicomp-2023/
#python #SciComp #HPC #RSEng
#PythonForSciComp day 3 is tomorrow, 8:50 CET. Almost everyone will find something new here:
- Scripts (break out of your IDE/Jupiter and make your work reusable)
- Library ecosystem (thoughts on reuse)
- Dependencies (make your environment reusable)
-Binder (make your code reusable by anyone in place)
https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/python-for-scicomp-2023/
#PythonForSciComp videos are published for day 2. The course ended at 13:00 and by 18:06 all five videos from the 3 hour day are live, which is a new record (both speed and lack of frustration). Videos may not be that useful for someone learning later (we've got reading material for that), but it does allow instant reviewing and catching-up.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLVmS9rf3nNI3oQEqSJW6yXltOAZnkpa
#teaching #python #VideoProduction #coderefinery
#PythonForSciComp (#Python for Scientific Computing) starts tomorrow and as usual, it's online and #livestream, so anyone can watch (9:00 CET). Drop ins are welcome, and Q&A/videos are usually published same-day.
Day 1 (tomorrow) starts with basics to make sure we are all on the same page: #Jupyter, #Numpy, #Pandas.
https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/python-for-scicomp-2023/
#SciComp #HPC #AcademicMastodon #PhD