4.2a Python For HPC

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4.2a. Python for HPC

Andrea Zonca (@zonca), Senior Computational Scientist, SDSC

• Introductory Slides on Google Docs
• Playlist on Youtube
• Coordination slides

Topics

• Launch Jupyter Notebook on Expanse
• Single-node Python code optimization with numba
• Dask tutorial: overlap functions, introduction to dask array, dask dataframe, distributed scheduler, (optional dataframe storage)
• Dask array in-depth tutorial for multi-core, out-of-core, multi-node computing

Requirements

Basic Python knowledge is helpful but not strictly required.

If you want to do a quick refresher of Python, take a look at the Software Carpentry tutorial material:

http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/

Or video recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8c-gE9uM0