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First you need to get a physics department computer account. Use Talk to someone if you don’t. Use your physics department account and login (using ‘ssh -Y’) to cosmology-01.phy.duke.edu.
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There is a copy in the student office and will give you instructions on how to get started. Also, ask other students for help. Make sure you can login, list files in your directory, edit a file etc. When you to do basic operations you are ready to get started. Alternatively, you can find many resources on line to introduce you to Unix.To start, you
will need a Duke physics department computer account. Talk to someone if you don’t. Then, login to cosmology-01.phy.duke.edu and When you are familiar with basic Unix commands type:
source /var/phy/project/lsst/LSST-Duke.sh
and this will setup the the LSST software for you.
These are the tutorials that all new members should do:
All new group members should do these tutorials and present their results in a set of presentations at the weekly group meetings.
Here are more specialized tutorials for various topics
This collection of more specialized tutorials are for people who need to dive more closely into a particular topic.
- Understanding the OpSim database:
- This is a copy of the LSST DC2 opsim database
minion_1016_desc_dithered_v4.db
in/var/phy/project/lsst/DC2/OpSim
on cosmology-01 . - This Jupyter notebook will show you how to open and explore it.
- This is a copy of the LSST DC2 opsim database
- Intro notebooks to Python, Pandas, GitHub and Parallel Computing https://github.com/ellongley/Duke-Tutorials (feel free to practice GitHub by making issues and contributing any comments or material you wish!)
- For Pixell installation and trouble shooting.