HPC to support undergraduate teaching

--- tags: teaching --- # HPC to support undergraduate teaching Monday March 1st 2021: 3.30pm to 4.30pm ## HPC to support undergraduate teaching ### Agenda 3.30pm: Introduction and HPC at Leeds (Martin - 5 mins) and handover to ... 3.35pm: Peter Jimack (the importance of research-informed teaching and a role for HPC 5 mins) 3.40pm: Emma Hesketh 3.45pm: Sarah Harris 3.50pm: Chris Randall 3.55pm: Discussion groups 4.10pm: Feedback from groups and complete 'hackpad' 4.20pm: Closing comments (Nick, if available) and next actions. 4.25pm: Meeting end ## Who's here? **Please put your firstname, lastname and school below** Chris Randall - School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Matthew Chivers - FBS, undergraduate Mark Conmy - Head of Research IT, IT Nick Rhodes - Research Software Engineer, Research Computing (IT) Emma Hesketh - Senior CryoEM scientist, Faculty of Biological sciences Jon Whitwell - Linux Support Specalist, IT Alex Coleman - Research Software Engineer, Research Computing, IT John Hodrien - Research Software Engineer, Research Computing, IT Chris Pilkington - Linux Support, IT Ian Pitcher - Linux Engineer, IT Yasmin Taylor - Faculty of Biological Sciences, MBiol Andrew Burnett - School of Chemistry Eric Atwell - PhD Tutor and MSc AI Programme lead, School of Computing Joe Barker - School of Physics and Astronomy James Lloyd - School of Chemistry Menwa Alshammeri - School of Computing Ollie Clark - Research Software Engineer, Research Computing, IT ## Discussion Group questions When we break into groups, please think about and discuss the following three questions. Also volunteer someone to give a little bit of brief feedback. Question 1: Who is currently using HPC to support teaching and what are you doing? Question 2: What would you like to do but can't? How could we fix this? eg I do not know how to ... Question 3: Looking more widely than just the HPC platform, what are the gaps in either the 'infrastructure' or 'people support' we provide? What do you need? eg linux WWW server? PA Personal Assistant for every student+staff to help them use IT? e.g. Ask LU http://itpi.lancaster.ac.uk/voice/questions.html 30-minute YouTube video: intro to practical use of ARC? Access to other web-HPC: https://SketchEngine.eu https://aws.amazon.com/education/alexa-edu/ https://colab.research.google.com/ https://www.kaggle.com/code Group 4 Q2 Challenges for Undergrads - or, indeed, any users new to HPC - Getting logged on and comfortable with command-line - Also learning code/programs/applications to actually plug in to the HPC - Sometimes need have 'immediate' access to batch results rather than waiting for a heavily used system to get around to it - Students should have been taught command line / coding BEFORE they have to access HPC for project work Q3 Azure labs - need to give module leaders some help with administering 'time' on AZLabs Should we write directly into this document?? Yes