CC Primer: Compute Canada for geoscientists in a rush
Last revision: 2023-10-14
Chapter 1 Front Matter
1.1 Copyright
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1.1.1 How to cite this work
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@book{BarrosLourenco2022,
title = "CC Primer: Compute Canada for geoscientists in a rush",
author = "Barros Lourenco, Ricardo",
year = 2022,
doi = "10.5281/zenodo.5937906"
note = {\url{https://ricardobarroslourenco.github.io/CCprimer/}(visited yyyy-mm-dd)}
}Obs.: Note that the DOI is of the base version (10.5281/zenodo.5937906) when compared to each revision releases, because it relates to all versions of this document, rather than a especific one.
1.2 Dedication
The author dedicates this work to all geoscientists that are trying to cross the border into Computational Sciences, and to all computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and other professionals who daily contribute in this community, by writing code, documenting, answering questions, maintaining infrastructure, among many other essential tasks. Thank you for your service!
1.3 Epigraph
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
— Apple Computer, “Think different” campaign. TBWA-Chiat-Day.
1.4 Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the contibution of the general Open Source Science community, in especially the following entities:
- Anaconda
- Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada)
- Globus
- Pangeo Community
- RockeR Project
- Vanessa Sochat
The author would like to acknowledge support, in part, of the following on this work:
- Through my advisor, Prof. Alemu Gonsamo:
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), through its NSERC Alliance program (Application: ALLRP 566310-21)
- Canada Research Chair program (CRC-2019-00139)
- McMaster University Centre for Climate Change Research Seed Fund
- The Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET), and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada through its Research Allocation Competition, under the 2023 Resources for Research Groups process “National carbon flux estimation system for forest ecosystems of Canada” (ID 4715)