Welcome to KIPAC

This page is intended to help you get started using our computing resources to do research while you are at KIPAC.

There are several different projects ongoing at KIPAC and each of them has its own computing resources and environment. However, we all do share certain resources.

This repository started out as a place to collect materials for a 3-day "BootCamp" for computing. The documenation intro for that is here

Getting and setting up accounts

Depending on if you are working at SLAC or on campus (or both) you will have computing accounts for either or both places.

SLAC computing accounts

Stanford computing accounts

Setting up your computer

Depending on the project you are working on, and the details of your work, you may find that you do almost all or almost none of your work on your own computer as opposed to on SLAC or Stanford computers.

However, at a minimum, you will almost certainly need to be able to connect terminal and graphics to remote (i.e., SLAC / Stanford) computers. It is also very likely that you will need to be able to run Jupyter analysis notebooks both on your computer, and by connecting your computer to a notebook server running at SLAC.

MacOS

Windows

If you are using a linux personal computer it would be great if you started some documenation on what you needed to do to get started.

Project specific setup pages

Rubin Observatory Camera

Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Exoplanets

LUX/LZ

CDMS

Specific Tutorials

Presentations for summer 2020

Tutorials about using Unix

Basic Unix Tutorial

Writing Shell Scripts in Unix

Missing semester you tube channel about computing

Tutorials about using Python

Basics

More Basics

Numerical and Scientific Python

Object Oriented Programming

Intro to Astro Tools

Tutorials about using particular Python Packages

Astropy

Matplotlib and Data visualization

Scipy

Tutorials about using other tools

git

SQL