Just getting back from two day course teaching #Snakemake programming on #HPC clusters. And I have several observations:
- the education level everywhere else seems way better, than on my home cluster. It is still a good idea, to assume the worst.
- it is never a good idea to accept bring-your-own-device: The Windows users with their tiny laptops will always have connection issues to a HPC system and will be working with one terminal (and usually tiny fonts).
- Some kind of IDE, common for all on decent screens, is a minimum. There are several options.
- clusters with QOS settings (quality of service) are confusing for some, because it is of course confusing to have a new obscure flag, when you are digesting a dozen other learning items.
- I need to fix a few things ๐
And most of all: I really need to start conceptualizing a smaller workshop, โbring your workflow, and we will port it to this systemโ. A new PR to the #SLURM plugin might help to ease the partition selection ...
