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Advanced Programming — Lecture 1b

Crash-course on the Computational Infrastructure

Simon Scheidegger
Department of Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

February 19th, 2024 | 10:15 - 14:00 | Anthropole 2106

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Outline

▶ Crash-course on the Computational Infrastructure


▶ Make first steps on a Linux Cluster (Login, short overview of basic unix commands
like cd, pwd, cp, scp,...)
▶ Get lecture notes/codes for the lecture

▶ Hello World in Python

MORE DETAILS IN THE TA


SESSION

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Alphacruncher.com/Nuvolos.cloud

▶ For this course, we use Alphacruncher/Nuvolos.cloud


▶ Its setup is very similar to any other system
▶ Register on Moodle, get the enrollment key, and open an
account.

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An abstract compute cluster

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An abstract compute cluster

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A real compute cluster

Credit: Blue Waters research cluster at NCSA, Illinois, USA (active 2007-2021).

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Access to Nuvolos Services

ENROLL NOW, enrollment key.

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Login via Browser

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Login via Browser

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Login via Browser

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Login via Browser — Jupyter

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Basic Linux commands

Command Description
pwd Print name of current/working directory
cd [Directory] Change directory (no directory → change to home
Is [Directory] List directory contents (no directory → list current)
cat FILE Concatenate files and print on the standard output
mkdir DIRECTORY Make directories
mkdir - p DIRECTORY Make directories, make parent directories as needed
cp SOURCE. . . DIRECTORY Copy files and directories
cp -r SOURCE. . DIRECTORY Copy files and directories, copy directories recursively
mv SOURCE. .. DIRECTORY Move (rename) files
man COMMAND An interface to the on-line reference manuals

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Basic Linux commands
Command Description
OpenSSH SSH client (remote login
ssh -X [email protected] program), access to host.com with
user foo
Secure copy (remote file copy pro-
scp [email protected]:/home/bar ./ gram), copy file bar from /home on
host.com to directory
Secure copy (remote file copy pro-
scp bar [email protected]:/home/ gram), copy file bar from the local
host to /home on host.com
The stupid content tracker, Clone
git clone [email protected]:whatever
a repository (whatever) into a new
folder-name
directory (folder-name)
Checkout a branch or paths to the
git checkout
working tree.

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