Topics

General

• Choose suitable CSC computing service

• Get CSC user account and project

• Look/ask for help

Supercomputer intro

• Why to use a supercomputer

• What is a supercomputer

• CSC supercomputers

• Connect to a supercomputer

Tools and scripting

• Availability:

  • Pre-installed tools at CSC

  • Installion of tools or extra packages to Python and R

• Parallel computing:

  • Do your analysis in parallel

  • Run Python scripts in parallel

  • Run R scripts in parallel

• Batch jobs

  • Write batch job script and submit it to SLURM

  • Check the results and resource usage

Data

• Find data:

  • Spatial data available at CSC

  • Use STAC for finding raster data

• Move the data to the computing environment

• Keep more permanent data and backups in Allas

• Data tips