ADCAS ran a workshop at UNSW (University of New South Wales) for 40 participants on the topic of coding best practice in scientific computing. The workshop was aimed at researchers without formal coding/software development training (which is pretty much all researchers!). The workshop was delivered in a hybrid mode with most people attending in person, but with a strong contingent of online folks.
The three day workshop was designed to give people a taste of many different aspects of best practices in scientific computing, with topics ranging from version control, testing, and documentation, to the use of containers, HPC (high-performance computing), how to parallelize code, as well as how to benchmark and profile code.
The workshop content can be found on GitHub.
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ADACS delivered Version Control training for both beginners and advanced users at the HWSA (Harley Wood School of Astronomy) in 2021.
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The NextFlow training provided comprehensive instruction on workflow orchestration, including running and developing NextFlow workflows, using containers (docker and singularity), configuring NextFlow with SLURM, and covering best practices.