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Christian Meesters
@rupdecat@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

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 😊

And most of all: I really need to start conceptualizing a smaller workshop, “bring your workflow, and we will port it to this system”. A new PR to the #SLURM plugin might help to ease the partition selection ...

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Christian Meesters
@rupdecat@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

PS, another thing I learned, is that reading tiny red error messages on a black screen is getting harder and harder. Might need new glasses. Or convince people that they will ruin their eyes with such colour schemes.

Bah! Thinking about it ... getting new glasses is simpler and less frustrating. And perhaps necessary anyhow.

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Scott Cain
@scottcain@genomic.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I think if I an IDE was forced on me at a workshop it would probably be a no-go for me. But I'm totally onboard with your thoughts on assuming the worst--that's always the right thing to do when designing a workshop!
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Christian Meesters
@rupdecat@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@scottcain If all the participants have is nano and vi, and do not know how to work with that effectively with those, any refactoring attempt is futile.

Perhaps a decent graphical editor would be better than an IDE. I was getting ahead of myself.

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Scott Cain
@scottcain@genomic.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Oh, I sympathize! Working with the various experience levels of participants is certainly one of the really hard things of pulling off a good workshop.
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