CodeJam #11 - Agenda

The CodeJam Programme Committee is pleased to announce that this years edition of the CodeJam will be held as an online event from 24 to 26 November 2020.

Please note, all times in the schedule are Central European Times (CET = UTC + 1h).

Registration is closed now.

Info: an overview page for this event is available here.

• [How to access the online event*]
• [Break-out rooms**]

[*] = Info will be provided by email before the meeting
[**] = The info will be provided in the meeting

Opening Talk

Session Talk

Each project owner shortly describes the project, presents the team, and name the breakout room, the team will meet after the Opening Session. Each project might have a slightly different structure (e.g. set-up of different coding and communication environments, tutorial intro, or coffee breaks).

Some of the pre-defined projects:

* Developer onboarding
* Jupyter migration to EBRAINS
* Docker Images for Jupyter Notebooks in EBRAINS
* Migration Collababoratory 1 to Collaboratory 2
* SpiNNaker-NRP Synchronisation
* Sustainable software environments for computation-heavy science
* PyTorch for spiking neural networks
* PyNN in data-heavy high-performance applications
* Developing a spiking neuronal network for controlling a robotic arm
* EBRAINS Winter of Documentation (2020-2021) Kickoff

In this project we will focus on:

• profiling of "common" backend code of PyNN,
• identify bottlenecks,
• propose and discuss possible solutions.

We will look at typical data exchange formats (numpy arrays, neo(?)) that can be a critical factor of overall runtime performance. Additionally, we will try to create recommendations on typical interfacing situations, such as Python-C++ wrapping of numpy data structures.

The Winter of Documentation (2020-2021) is a concept similar to the Google Summer of Code, where the emphasis of all partners developing EBRAINS RI components will be placed on improving the quality and completeness of the documentation. In this CodeJam project, we will:

• discuss a concept for user-level documentation across EBRAINS tools;
• look into relevant content aspects to improve the quality of documentation; and
• examine possible technical solutions for integrating documentation within EBRAINS for a consistent appearance and interactions with catalogs like the KnowledgeGraph.

The meeting will act as a kickoff session for the upcoming documentation season and allow us to learn from each other.

Mentors are distributed with teams to their Breakout rooms. In the meeting collab you will be able to see who is in which room to meet, discusse, drink a virtual coffee, for help, etc.

Timed actions in the Developer Onboarding Breakout room:

• 14:00-15:00h: OpenStack tutorial (Pollux) (Alex Upton)
• 15:15 - 16:15h: Scalable Compute tutorial (Piz Daint) (Alex Upton)

Please note, all times in the schedule are Central European Times (CET = UTC + 1h).

Session Talk/Demo

Session Talk

Session Talk

A brief introduction to recent developments in the NEST simulator as well as a sneak peek at what you can expect from our next releases.

Timed actions in the Developer Onboarding Breakout room:

• 11:30 - 12:00 OpenShift Demo (Fabrice Gaillard, Paula Popa)

Timed actions in the Developer Onboarding Breakout room:

• 14:00 - 14:30h: TVB deployment on OpenShift (Fabrice Gaillard, Paula Popa)

Please note, all times in the schedule are Central European Times (CET = UTC + 1h).

Session Talk

The topic of the talk is to describe the standard software licenses from a legal point of view, and which are the rights of the developer or software engineer, as the case may be, when they use a GNU or an open source code license. Additionally, the purpose of the talk will be to run a guideline overview of the best practices to follow when using a software license.

Session Talk

Timed actions in the Developer Onboarding Breakout room:

• 11:00 - 12:30h: Unicore scenarios (Bernd Schuller)

• Voluntary in plenary
• 3-5 mins each project
• Q+A

Closing Remarks