Harvard STAT115 Introduction to Odyssey

Condensed version of Introduction to Odyssey seminar:

1. Slide deck is at Intro_to_Odyssey_v2_culled.pdf

2. Companion exercises for slide deck at Exercises.md

3. Additional material on scaling to large numbers of jobs at Scaling_work_on_Odyssey.pdf

4. Shell SLURM script at run_test.sh

5. R code to run via SLURM script at test.R

Post-lecture exercise:

1. Download the run_test.sh and test.R scripts to your home folder
2. Modify the run_test.sh script so that it includes the proper SBATCH directives, Lmod opt-in, module loads, and commands to run the test.py script.
3. Include a mail notification so that you know the script completed successfully.
4. Forward the SUCCESS email to your TF, and paste in the contents of the run_test.sh file. (DO NOT send this script file through the mail system, as it might be stripped out as a potential virus by mailserver virus scan software).
5. Bask in the joy that you've run your first cluster job!

Any questions, please contact your TF or the course instructor.