In order to successfully complete this assignment you must do the required reading, watch the provided videos and complete all instructions. The embedded survey form must be entirely filled out and submitted on or before 11:59pm on Tuesday January 26. Students must come to class the next day prepared to discuss the material covered in this assignment.
The National Science Foundation invests quite a bit of money into providing computing resources to researchers. The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources and expertise. Here is a short video that describes XSEDE.
from IPython.display import YouTubeVideo
YouTubeVideo("PBUIBJHZzD4",width=640,height=360)
As part of this course we have obtained access to compute resources on these National Systems. In order to use these resources you will need an XSEDE portal account. Please sign up for an account here:
https://portal.xsede.org/#/guest
Provide your portal ID to the instructor using the Google form below.
✅ QUESTION: What is your XSEDE Portal Account UserID?
Put your Portal ID Here.
The following video describes the PATH environment variable and shows you how it can be changed to add software installed in a new location.
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YouTubeVideo("2OXvoXejZcw",width=640,height=360)
ls
clear
which python
cd
env
echo $PATH
echo $PATH | sec -r "s/:/\\n/g"
export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH
ssh dev-intel16
nano ~/.bashrc✅ QUESTION: What is the which command used for?
Put your answer to the above question here.
✅ QUESTION: The PATH environment variable is a set of system folders separated by a colon (:). What command would you use to add the /mnt/research/mygroup/bin folder to the end of your path?
Put your answer to the above question here.
The following video shows some basics on how to use the module command that is available on the HPCC.
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YouTubeVideo("lXYpQeU3j-0",width=640,height=360)
ssh dev-intel16
clear
who | wc -l
module list
module spider MATLAB
module unload MATLAB
module load MATLAB/2018b
which matlab
module swap MATLAB/2018b MATLAB/2018a
module avail
module unload gnu
module load intel
module show intel
module purge✅ QUESTION: Use the module spider command to search modules. What versions of the libpng are available on the HPCC? (Note: if the modules have changed since the last time you used the module spider command it may need to rebuild it's database which can take a few seconds).
Put the answer to the above question here.
Please fill out the form that appears when you run the code below. You must completely fill this out in order to receive credits for the assignment!
If you have trouble with the embedded form, please make sure you log on with your MSU google account at googleapps.msu.edu and then click on the direct link above.
✅ Assignment-Specific QUESTION: What is your XSEDE Portal Account UserID?
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✅ QUESTION: Summarize what you did in this assignment.
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✅ QUESTION: What questions do you have, if any, about any of the topics discussed in this assignment after working through the jupyter notebook?
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✅ QUESTION: How well do you feel this assignment helped you to achieve a better understanding of the above mentioned topic(s)?
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✅ QUESTION: What was the most challenging part of this assignment for you?
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✅ QUESTION: What was the least challenging part of this assignment for you?
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✅ QUESTION: What kind of additional questions or support, if any, do you feel you need to have a better understanding of the content in this assignment?
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✅ QUESTION: Do you have any further questions or comments about this material, or anything else that's going on in class?
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✅ QUESTION: Approximately how long did this pre-class assignment take?
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Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University
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