Seminar series resources

Released under CC license 2.0 unless noted otherwise.

2013

5th February: Research computing: structures and support at Newcastle University. Slides available from the Digital Institute, Dr Leonardo of HaSS and from ISS..

8 January: Using GPUs for parallel processing by Dr Stephen McGough. Slides available here and associated code here and here.

2012

4 December: SSH Tips and tricks for remote access to the university. Slides available here.

6 November: An overview of the R programming language by Dr Colin Gillespie. Slides available here.

9 October: Backup and disaster by Dr Stuart Petch. Slides (link) and a Linux backing up handout (link) are available for download.

6 March: Spatial Databases: storing and analysing location information in a database (zip file link- 15Mb) - Phil James

10 Jan: Quantum Turbulence and Supercomputing (pdf link- 19.6Mb) - Angela White

2011

28 Nov: An Introduction to Database Systems - a practical guide to getting started with PostgreSQL (zip file link) - Phil James

1 Nov:: Images and visualisation:

- An Introduction to Pattern Recognition (pdf) - Juliana Haggerty

- Data Beautiful: The Art and Science of Data Visualisation - Brigitta Zics, Tom Schofield (pdf),(web prezi).

4th Oct: Parallel computing, myths and truths (pdf) - Steve McGough

Conference material and related resources

Networking,
Programming Languages,
Source Control Systems,
Debugging Software,
Testing,
Visualising Data,
The Problem with numbers,
Libraries,
Copyright for Software Authors,
Databases,
Distributed Computing: Condor and other tools,
Using GPUs for fast processing,
Discussion Session A1 - Reproducibility of results, provenance and archiving ,
Discussion Session A2 - What makes good code good?,
Practical Session A3-1– grep, sed, awk,
Practical Session A3-2 - Python,
Practical Session A3-3 - Subversion,

* Released under CC license 2.0
** Released under CC license 2.5

To report any errors or missing links please contact tom.watts@northumbria.ac.uk

Networking

• Networking Presentation Slides- Maya King (.ppt)*

• Networking Tips - Maya King (.pdf)*

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Programming Languages

• Presentation slides - Clive Gerrard(.pdf)*

• Programming languages by category (link)

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Source Control Systems

• Presentation slides - Jeremy Whiting(.pdf)*

• Redhat (link)

• Subversion (link)

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Debugging Software

• Presentation slides - Jeremy Whiting(.pdf)*

• GNU Project Debugger (link)

• Data Display Debugger (link)

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Testing

• Presentation slides - Mike Jackson(.pdf)**

• Software Sustainability Institute (link)

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Visualising Data

• Presentation slides - Liz Petrie and Tom Holderness (.pdf)*

• Matlab

• Visualising Data in Matlab (link)

• Matlab tutorials (link)

• Octave (Opensource Matlab Alternative) (link)

• 3D Visualisation using Matlab (.pdf)

• Matlab code for plots (.pdf)

• GMT - 'Generic mapping tools'

  • GMT homepage (link)

• Python - Matplotlib

  • Examples (link)

  • “Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment” by J. D. Hunter In Computing in Science & Engineering, Vol9, No 3. (2007), pp. 90-95 (DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2007.55 )

  • “Matplotlibfor Python Developers: Build Remarkable Publication Quality Plots the Easy Way” by S. Tosi, PacktPublishing (2009).

• R

  • Presentation Notes - Aidan Burton (.doc)*

  • R Homepage (link)

  • Quick reference, R Reference Card 4pp (.pdf)

  • Reference manual, Reference index, 3447pp (.pdf)

  • An introductory course, An Introduction to R, 109pp (.pdf)

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The Problem with Numbers

• Presentation slides -Steve McGough (pdf)*

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Libraries

• Presentation slides - James Perry(pdf)**

• BLAS (link)

• Linear Algebra PACKage (link)

• PETSc (link)

• FFTW (link)

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Copyright for software Authors

• Presentation slides - Rowan Wilson(pdf)*

• OSS Watch (link)

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Databases

• Presentation slides - Phil James(pdf)*

• SQL Tutorial (link)

• PostgreSQL (link)

• MySQL (link)

• PL/SQL book (link)

• Starting PostgreSQL (link)

• ODBC (link)

• Python to Postgres (link)

• JDBC – Java to Postgres (link)

• .NET to Postgres (link)

• R to Postgres (link)

• Matlab to PostgreSQL (link)

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Distributed Computing: Condor and other tools

• Presentation slides - Peter Clarke(pdf)*

• Condor (link)

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Using GPUs for fast processing

• Presentation slides - James Perry,(pdf)**

• NVIDIA Cuda Architecture (link)

• NVIDIA Cuda Toolkit (link)

• Intel Larrabee (link)

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Discussion Session A1 - Reproducibility of results, provenance and archiving,

• Presentation slides - James Perry (pdf)**

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Discussion Session A2 - What makes good code good?,

• Presentation slides - Mike Jackson (pdf)**

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Practical Session A3-1– grep, sed, awk,

• Practical Handout - Liz Petrie (pdf)*

• Practical files (zip)*

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Practical Session A3-2 - Python

• Practical Handout- Tom Holderness(pdf)*

• Practical files (csv)*

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Practical Session A3-3 - Subversion

• TBC

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