Computing Course November 2022

Session

Computing Course

22 Nov 2022, 08:30

Z011 (WCW Congreszalen)

6. Welcome & Introduction

Jeff Templon

22/11/2022, 09:00

• Introduction of the services that are going to be talked about in the Computing Course
• Know where to ask for help with questions or problems
• Know where to find documentation
• For newcomers: highlight the centralised services of Nikhef

14. You and others; Security & Privacy

Ronald Starink

22/11/2022, 09:15

• Understand why security is important for you and your colleagues
• Learn basic measures to work securely
• Understand what is meant with privacy: rights and responsibilities

7. You and a laptop

Bart van der Wal

22/11/2022, 09:30

• Know how to encrypt your harddrive
• Know how to backup your laptop
• Know how to setup EduVPN
• Know how to mount your home dir on your laptop; do’s and don’ts
• Know about different local storage areas; and which to use for what

8. You, your laptop, and somebody else; how to work together

David Groep (Nikhef)

22/11/2022, 10:00

• Know how to send big files: SURF Filesender
• Know how to find and use SURFdrive and CernBox
• Understand which services are safe to use and which are not
• Know how to use Identity Services & Federated Login
• Know how to use Zoom and Mattermost

9. You, login and Linux

Dennis van Dok

22/11/2022, 11:20

• Know how to login; ssh keys, protecting ssh keys, do’s and don’t
• Understand basic principles of security with passwords
• Know how to setup and safely use (proxy) tunnels; do’s and don’ts
• Know how to manage your personal home page
• Understand and apply general unix principles
• Know about the basics of scripting and programming
• Know how to use the most common command line...

10. You, Jupyter, submit nodes and interactive nodes

Mary Hester (Nikhef), Roel Aaij

22/11/2022, 13:30

• Understand shared resource etiquette for using interactive nodes
• Understand when to use your home directory, /project, /data, and /dcache for storage (Stoomboot)
• Know how to login and open Jupyter Notebooks on callysto.nikhef.nl (JupyterHub)
• Know how to setup a user environment to run group’s analysis framework (with conda in some cases)
• Know how to obtain a grid x509 proxy...

11. You, stoomboot, and a thesis as a present

Dennis van Dok

22/11/2022, 14:45

• Understand when and how to submit a (CPU) batch job
• Understand basic principles and use of CVMFS, Containers and Conda
• Know how batch system queues work and what resources are available
• Know how to write a job description file for a (local? Grid?) batch job
• Know how to write a batch script (script that runs non-interactively & what is diff with previous?)
• Know how to write...

12. When the stoomboot is not enough

Roel Aaij

22/11/2022, 15:40

• Understand when and how to submit a GPU job
• Know how to add VO information to grid proxy certificate (use grid-proxy-init / voms-proxy-init)
• Know how to write efficient code, and what not to do
• Know how to find your experiment framework (sft.cern.ch)

13. When you are in need of some help

Bart van der Wal

22/11/2022, 16:20

• Who are you going to call?
• Where to go when something is wrong
• Learn about basic troubleshooting tools
• Helpdesk, status.io, stbc users mailinglist
• Office Hours

2. You and your research data

Reinder Radersma (Data Competence Center - CWI/NWO-I)

23/11/2022, 10:00

• Know about the FAIR principles and are able to assess your own data product with respect to these principles.
• Know the 5 Principles and know where to find the full text and the Standards for good research practices (section 3).
• Know about the Code of Conduct for Scientific integrity (2018) and its relation to reproducibility, documentation, reporting (including FAIR meta-data), and the...

3. When your data becomes part of something bigger

David Groep (Nikhef)

23/11/2022, 10:30

• Know common persistent identifier schemes; at least DOI, hdnl.net and ORCID.
• Possess an ORCID identifier and know how to update basic information in their ORCID record.
• Know the importance of applying licenses to data and software for re-usability.
• Know the basic licenses for data and software, and know where to find guidance on license application and the main differences between...

4. When software enters the stage

Roel Aaij

23/11/2022, 13:00

• Learn how to structure directories to manage processes, incoming, intermediate, and final research data, and to keep (persistent) references to data elements relative to its root.
• Learn about research information repositories, and at least get to know Zenodo and arXiv.
• Learn how to upload mock data or slides to Zenodo (in the sandbox.zenodo.org environment) and complete the meta-data...

5. When you are in need of some help

David Groep (Nikhef)

23/11/2022, 15:20

• Know where to find research data management guidance at Nikhef (web pages, mail, in-person).
• Know where to find help & guidance for research issues and integrity at Nikhef
• Room for questions and in-depth help