[RITL] Remote Computing Lesson

[Thomas Girke]

Hi Kat

Hard to make specific suggestions for this outline (more a table of content
doc). Based on my experience with teaching data analysis oriented classes
and tutorials requiring remote systems (HPC or cloud), the biggest
challenge for beginners is often to learn and embrace how to work in an ssh
terminal efficiently. This includes fluency with a non-graphical IDE (e.g.
neovim or emacs) and tmux/screen for ssh session management. Perhaps adding
these two to the table of content of your colleague could be something to
consider. Doing remote work via a web solution (e.g. Jupyter or similar) is
also something to consider, but to me it is not a complete substitute for
learning basic skills working in an ssh terminal.

If it helps, here is a super basic intro tutorial
<https://girke.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/GEN242/tutorials/linux/linux/> for
working on HPC systems that I use for my genome data science classes. More
on this can be found in the tutorial and manual sections of the HPCC website
<https://hpcc.ucr.edu/>. I guess there are tons of similar tutorials all
over the internet and everyone has their own preferences.

Thomas

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:57 AM Katherine E Koziar <
katherine.koziar at ucr.edu> wrote:

> A colleague at UC Merced created this (rough draft) remote computing
> lesson: https://devnich.github.io/remote-computing/   He is currently
> looking for feedback on the lesson.  Any feedback is appreciated, if you
> think this lesson, or components of the lesson, is useful to your area
> (i.e. HPCC and helping researchers use and navigate their cluster, other
> remote environments, etc).  It is created to be complementary to a Bash
> Shell lesson (how to navigate, basic bash scripts, etc).
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> Thanks,
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> -kat
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Thomas Girke, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioinformatics
Director of High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC)
Director of Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics (GGB)
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