ARCHER python course

Welcome to the ARCHER python course. ARCHER https://www.archer.ac.uk/ is the UK national supercomputing service.

Local details for Belfast December 2019

Timetable & location are in ./2019-belfast.md

What you will need

• Your Laptop (Windows/MacOS/Linux) and a wifi connection (with eduroam credentials or as guest)
• Anaconda distribution of Python Version 3.5 or above. This may be downloaded from https://www.continuum.io/
• The course material should be downloaded from this repository

$ git clone http://github.com/EPCCed/archer-python.git

For this last stage you will require a git client (Linux/MacOS should have one installed; Windows users may use e.g., Git for Windows from https://gitforwindows.org/).

Contents

Lecture content is intended to be run via jupyter-lab and may be found the lectures sub-directory. E.g., once you have downloaded the respository, from the directory containing this README run the command

$ jupyter-lab

and use the file navigation bar on the left to move to the lectures.

Examples

Thematic example in examples/cfd

Archer examples in examples/mpi4py-archer

ARCHER

Details of access to ARCHER will be provided on the day.