I guess my thoughts was not so much that this would be useful to SWC learners directly, but rather to instructors who are doing follow-up courses after SWC in specific areas.
It should make it much easier to get well-used, but difficult to install (I'm looking at you OpenFOAM :-) codes into the hands of learners so that a wider range of machines can be used to teach. And the workflow I anticipate is where the SWC learner is now being taught how to use their new skills to write scripts which help pre-/post- process data from one of these applications, or convert/pass data between them. Best regards, Neil On 7 May 2015 at 15:03, Kaitlin Thaney <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Neil. > > Would be curious (and happy to take this offlist) - are there any > generalizable examples that this could be used for to show learners how it > can apply to their needs. I know most of the code we hear about is bespoke, > but wondering if there are a few guiding examples like 1 for data analysis, > 1 for HPC jobs, etc that could serve as compelling use cases. > > - K > > -- > Kaitlin Thaney > Director, Mozilla Science Lab > @kaythaney ; @MozillaScience > skype / IRC: kaythaney > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Alan O'Cais <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been collaborating with them a lot and have brought EasyBuild to our >> site at Juelich Supercomputing Centre. I'm actually looking to use it to >> create more reproducible examples for HPC practicals. There are some pros >> and cons for newbies, not least of these is being forced to use the 'module' >> tool to manage the environment and having to build the software stack from >> the ground up (while it is all automated, it takes a long time). >> >> Overall, I'm a big fan but I'm not sure it's a perfect fit for the SC >> target audience. >> >> Best, >> >> Alan >> >> On 7 May 2015 at 13:44, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> one of the issues we've seen when teaching learners, particularly in >>> the engineering and physical sciences, is that although Software >>> Carpentry teaches them valuable skills for developing their own >>> software, there's often a requirement to use existing legacy >>> scientific codes which are difficult to install and configure. >>> >>> I saw a presentation of EasyBuild >>> (http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/) recently, and tried it out(*), >>> and it seems to provide an interface similar to HomeBrew for Macs for >>> installing a wide range of popular scientific software. Good >>> documentation, though more aimed at system administrators and power >>> users. They're also apparently talking to the other major scientific >>> software code packaging frameworks in the US and Australia about >>> collaborating/merging. >>> >>> Might be of interest to those looking to make it easier to teach >>> follow-on courses on specific pieces of software in their >>> institutions. >>> >>> Best regards >>> Neil >>> >>> (*) And if I can use it to install something, it must be getting >>> something right ;-) >>> -- >>> Neil Chue Hong >>> Director, Software Sustainability Institute >>> EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK >>> Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5957 >>> http://www.software.ac.uk/ >>> >>> LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilchuehong >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/npch >>> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Alan O'Cais >> Application Support >> Juelich Supercomputing Centre >> Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH >> 52425 Juelich, Germany >> >> Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 >> Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 >> E-mail: [email protected] >> WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH >> 52425 Juelich >> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich >> Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. 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