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You need to teach this course on an - unknown - cluster?

Then send this questionaire to your hosting site. Ask for all questions to be answered unless a public documention link can be provided, which answers these questions, partially.

Questionaire

This questionaire helps asking the right questions:

  • Organization:

    • Who is the contact for organizing this course?
    • If this is a topical course (e.g. for Bioinformaticicians, Physicist, etc.): Does the organization employ a support scientist for the intended topic? If so, which are the contact details?

  • What does the course room look like?

    • How many seats and PC-screens are available?
    • Is there a "Presenter PC"?
    • Is it possible to plug in a laptop? (HDMI and/or VGA?)
    • Please describe the "projector situation" (1 or more, need to have a key?).
    • Does the lecturer need an adaptor for the projector?
    • Which is the OS for participant PCs?
    • Is paired programming possible during the course considering the classroom's seating?

  • Login and Security:

    • Which is the recommended software to log in? (putty, mobaxterm, powershell or plain ssh via Linux - or a terminal on demand)
    • Is 2FA enforced? If so: How? If there is no 2FA: Any other security measures to consider?
    • ssh-keys - are they to be prepared? (How? By the participants? Or centrally by the hosting site?)
    • Does the site use course accounts?
    • Will the site prepare login information to be shared with the lecturer? (e.g. featuring login information on login sheets, login slides, etc.)
    • Which is the OS for participant PCs?
    • May, or should participants bring their own device? If so:
      • Will there be information about it?
      • Will there be wifi?
      • Will there be power outlets?

  • Cluster Specialties

    • May the course use a shared file space for the setup to be copied to? E.g. a workspace? Which are the quota limitations?
    • Are there quotas for the HOME directory (size, file number)?
    • Which compute node scratch mount points are provided (for stage-in/out)?
    • Which editors or IDEs are provided? Is there an IDE via an OnDemand system (if so, which URL)?
    • Which applications are available to display a simple plot (png, jpeg, svg)?
    • Will the admins provide a reservation? A "magnetic" reservation for course accounts is preferred, as then no need to adapt the course material is required.
    • Which partitions does the cluster provide for SMP programs (any restrictions for such software)?
    • Which partitions does the cluster provide for software (e.g. MPI) using >=1 full nodes?
    • How does the cluster support GPU application resource requests (special partitions? special SLURM flags?)?
    • How long will the course run (number of days)? (our minimum is 2 days for the creator part and 1/2 day for the user part)
    • Does the cluster provide a scratch file system on compute nodes? If yes: what is the path?

  • Misc

    • Do colleagues on site want to be trained as trainers?
    • Should the lecturer provide a brief overview for administrators on-site? (30 min. plus discussion and questions)

Note: References (e.g. URLs to internal documentation) are welcome and might save you from spending too much time on your feedback.