Re: [Discuss] introduction to SWC

2018-03-19 Thread Peter Steinbach
_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- Peter Steinbach, Dr. rer. nat. Scientific Software Engineer, Scientific Computing Facility Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH Löscherstr. 16 01309 Dresden Germany phone +49 351 210 2882

[Discuss] inverted carpentries?

2018-02-07 Thread Peter Steinbach
he content of the videos. For me the biggest advantage of this approach is, that each learner can overcome the initial steep learning curve given their own speed of learning - which is a constant source of trouble when I teach. Looking forward to your feedback - Peter -- Peter Steinbach, Dr

[Discuss] open hackathon for porting your application to GPUs

2018-01-15 Thread Peter Steinbach
existing GPU application, you can receive one week of free consulting from experts while working on your own code. Apply here: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/training-event/2018-gpu-hackathons/ until Jan 19! Feel free to forward this message to anyone interested, Peter -- Peter Steinbach, Dr. rer. nat

Re: [Discuss] Serverless scientific computing (function as a service)

2017-06-14 Thread Peter Steinbach
. One problem may be to convince University fund managers to pay for external computing services when they already provide HPC services. My five cents... On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, 13:38 Peter Steinbach, <steinb...@scionics.de> wrote: Dear both, as a side note (and my apologies for digressi

Re: [Discuss] Serverless scientific computing (function as a service)

2017-06-13 Thread Peter Steinbach
Dear both, as a side note (and my apologies for digressing), I was wondering how popular cloud computing for data processing at scale in an academic context is in the US or elsewhere? Here in Europe, many universities run their own HPC centers where people can sign up to process larger

Re: [Discuss] Cool book on Python --> Numpy

2017-01-16 Thread Peter Steinbach
this looks really good, +1 for sharing thanks! P On 01/16/2017 08:37 AM, Kunal Marwaha wrote: I know it's a crowded field, but I really like this book. Perhaps other in the SWC community would enjoy it too. http://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/

Re: [Discuss] hpc-novice revival?

2016-12-06 Thread Peter Steinbach
Dear list, I have submitted a PR https://github.com/swcarpentry/hpc-novice/pull/9 containing a possible outline of the contents in the course. https://github.com/psteinb/hpc-novice/blob/9a584e9fe0fa1009e0cc32228684ca1685038364/outline.md Best, Peter

Re: [Discuss] hpc-novice revival?

2016-12-05 Thread Peter Steinbach
Dear Anelda, thank you for your reply. I think we have to go through the discussion again about what should this lesson contain that you bring up. In nuce, I think we should concentrate on 1-2 core principles behind cloud and hpc. I agree that many scientists are confused by the availability

Re: [Discuss] Python intermediate? First time teaching? Core curriculum?

2016-04-05 Thread Peter Steinbach
Dear Davide, besides the administrative issues, I'd be curious to know what topics you would be up to? And what your target audience is? Currently, python-intermediate-mosquitoes targets mostly modularisation (which should/could/must be split up and the overarching storyline needs more

Re: [Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
hi guys, I'd sign off of both Davide's and Trevor's arguments - thanks for the reconfirmation. And I do agree with Trevor, that teaching people TDD that have never bumped their head against the wall because of a bug they cannot find, is ambitious. I believe it's the same with version control

Re: [Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
vide a follow up as I am intrigued by this question as well. Best, P -- Peter Steinbach, Dr. rer. nat. Scientific Software Engineer, Scientific Computing Facility Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH Löscherstr. 16 01309 Dresden Germany phone +49 351 210 2882 fax +49 351 202 707 04 w

[Discuss] scientific computing, HPC and tests

2016-03-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
Hi to all, I just wanted to share some insights that I made during a GPU focused hackathon last week. For the full glory of details, see a series of blog posts on Eurohack 2016 in Dresden (Germany): https://gcoe-dresden.de/?page_id=4 The hackathon had 6 teams come into Dresden with their HPC

Re: [Discuss] further reading

2015-12-09 Thread Peter Steinbach
Dear all, thank you for all the replies. I think this is a somewhat tricky task. I still believe it would be worthwhile to include a short list in every lesson repo. This should/would be tailored to the audience of the lesson. I also think this list should be curated so that (as Darya

[Discuss] further reading

2015-12-08 Thread Peter Steinbach
Hi to all, I was asked again recently, what books and/or websites I could recommend for learning to program in python. while thinking about the answer, I pondered the software carpentry website(s) and "only" found this: http://software-carpentry.org/bib/reading.html which is good to have and

Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-28 Thread Peter Steinbach
/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Peter Steinbach, Dr. rer. nat. HPC Developer, Scientific Computing Facility Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH Löscherstr. 16 01309 Dresden Germany phone +49 351 210 2882 fax +49 351 202 707 04 www.scionics.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Dresden (Main office) Amtsgericht

[Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-27 Thread Peter Steinbach
Hi to all, I just taught a SWC workshop for intermediates. As usual, a considerable portion of the audience would have been better off attending a novice course first. This time the ratio was quite high though: 30-40% out of 25 IIRC. My question is simple, how do other instructors deal with

Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-27 Thread Peter Steinbach
ichael J Jackson <micha...@epcc.ed.ac.uk> wrote: Hi Peter, If there are more people falling behind than you have helpers to handle, then I'd just slow down. I'd (reluctantly) rather bore those who don't want a slower pace, than confuse those do. cheers, mike Quoting Peter Steinbach

Re: [Discuss] a new lesson on Make

2015-06-29 Thread Peter Steinbach
Just to add: msys2 (full blown Unix tool box for Windows) comes with a package manager that makes installing SWC tooling like make, git, python etc a piece of cake. https://msys2.github.io/ Best, Peter On 06/29/2015 10:01 AM, Michael J Jackson wrote: Hi Damien, Quoting Damien Irving

[Discuss] Any SWC Folks in and around San Jose (CA)?

2015-03-06 Thread Peter Steinbach
in the bay area is also fine with me. Best, Peter -- Peter Steinbach, Dr. rer. nat. HPC Developer, Scientific Computing Facility Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Pfotenhauerstr. 108 01307 Dresden Germany phone +49 351 210 2882 fax +49 351 210 1689 www.mpi-cbg.de