Introduction
Tobias Kölling, Florian Ziemen, and the teams at MPI-M and DKRZ
This course
Idea
- Acquire skills that help you in the day-to-day work
- Understand how things work, and why they take the time they take
- Do things more efficiently
Format
- Weekly lectures with exercises
- Changing lecturers
- Active participation in the exercises will get you a pass, or a 2 if you need a grade. If you want a different grade, you can prepare a presentation for the last lecture date, and we’ll grade that.
The exercises
- We provide exercises at the end of each lecture.
- You have to hand-in the answers before the next lecture.
- We will draw candidates for presenting from those submissions.
- Starting with lecture 2 submitting will usually be a git commit hash, but we’ll explain that next week.
- We expect attendance in at least 80% of the exercises - contact us if that’s not possible for you.
The topics
Practical skills
- Working with the command line
- GIT
- Testing
- Debugging
- User experience design
- Good scientific & coding practice
Understanding the system
- Computing devices (hardware)
- File & Data systems
- Memory hierarchies
Understanding usage
- Programming paradigms
- Data structures
- Complexity
- Parallelism
The lecturers
DKRZ
- Claudia Frauen (HPC and GPU programming)
- Dominik Zobel (HPC and GPU programming)
- Florian Ziemen (Data access and visualization)
- Georgiana Mania (HPC and GPU programming)
- Jan Frederik Engels JFE (experimental computer science)
- Nils-Arne Dreier (HPC and data access)
MPI-M
- Bjorn Stevens (Climate physics)
- Karl-Hermann Wieners (HPC usability and data workflow)
- Lukas Kluft (Meteorology, python, and data workflow)
- René Redler (HPC and model coupling)
- Theresa Mieslinger (Clouds and computing)
- Tobias Kölling (Physicist, likes data structures)
The students
Who needs a grade?
Who is experienced with git?
Who has used an HPC system before?
Which programming languages do you speak?
- Python
- Fortran
- C/C++
- other
What is missing in our lecture concept?
Course materials
The source of the slides is public
- They are generated using quarto
- Find the source code at https://gitlab.dkrz.de/generic-software-skills/lecture-materials
- And the generated slides at https://generic-software-skills.gitlab-pages.dkrz.de/lecture-materials/
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