DailyChallenges

The Daily Challenges were created at Pomona College ITS to establish a shared vocabulary for the student workers in HPC Support and encourage them to explore and dicsuss the concepts that dominate our work lives.

GitHub Markdown was used to transfer the challenges from a Slack channel where they were posted over the course of a semester.

There are approximately (~) 50 challenges, they are not in any particular order but some of them do depend on others to have a deeper understanding of the topic.

They are not meant to be completed in full, you can pick those that speak to you more than others, but each ideally requires a discussion to make sure you absorbed the information.

Most students get through 10-15 challanges in a week with a pretty good understanding of the vocabulary at the end of 4-5 sessions (weeks).

The numbers at the end of each topic indicate the recommended priority. Most students found it was easier to start with 1 or 1/2 and then proceed to 2 and 3.

Virtualization - 2 (Estimated time 2-3 hours)
git - 3
GitHub name - 1
CS Basics - 1
Basic Linux and bash Commands - 1
DevOps - 3
Linux Comic - 1
Operating System aka OS - 1
Software Design Decoded - Simplicity - 1
Why Analysis - 1
Python at Facebook - 1
vi cheat sheet - 2
Installing Linux - 3
tmux - 2
Vagrant - 3
Ansible - 3
vim - 2 add nano? add micro?
git commands - 3
regex - 2
command line - 0
Docker - 3
Number Systems - 3
Bare Metal - 3
Scheduling - 3
CPU Pinning - 3
Pluralsight - 2 Add other learning subscriptions?
Performance Monitoring - 2
Heterogeneous Computing - 2
HPC Resources - 3
Box - 1
AllDayDevOps - 3
Conferencces - O'Reilly AI - 3
Swift Playground - 1
Download R - 1
scrum and agile vs waterfall - 3
web server - 3
HPC Acronyms - 2
AWS (a cloud) account - 3
patenting/open source - 2
Hour of Code - 1
Robot Choreography - 2
JoCSE - 3
SDSC - 1/2
Things That Mattered - 1
Arrays vs Lists - 3
Photogrammetry - 3
Excel - 1
Lightbot - 1
Pure Storage Blog Post - 3
CENIC - 1
Sensors/Data - 1/2
pdsh/ADMIN Magazine - 2
Databases/ACID - 3
Compiling - 2
CI/CD - 2

...

Extra Resources To Explore:

Free

CyberInfrastructure Tutor at NCSA: https://www.citutor.org/login.php or the newer link: https://www.hpc-training.org/xsede/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=10#

Cornell Virtual Workshop: https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/topics

GPittsburgh SuperComputing Center: https://www.psc.edu/resources/training/

AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/events/monthlywebinarseries/

Inexpensive

https://www.sdsc.edu/event_items/202101_HPC_User_Training_Series.html

Udacity course on HPC: https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computing--ud281

Site Subscriptions

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-high-performance-computing

Bootcamp

http://bootcamp.rice.edu/hpc-bootcamp/hpc-bootcamp-curriculum/

Online course (certificates, credentials)

https://linuxacademy.com/

Training

https://developer.nvidia.com/developer-program?ncid=pa-srch-goog-53600&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1a6EBhC0ARIsAOiTkrF9YuRNf-Bn79T801nCADsdb3LVsZlCbKs-gIoZDRHPqCRjwsRvuF4aAkBGEALw_wcB#cid=dl13_pa-srch-goog_en-us

https://education.hpe.com/us/en/training/portfolio/highperformance.html

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/training/course/ointrohpc.html

Conferences

These conferences are of interest to me personally and could be of interest to others at Pomona as an effective tool to learn more about a particular topic or technology or meet people solving similar problems.

https://pearc.acm.org/

https://sc21.supercomputing.org/

https://www.isc-hpc.com/

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/events/hpcdevcon/overview.html

https://odsc.com/