Octopus course 2021

Octopus Training Courses in 2021:

Octopus Basics (Sep. 6-14)

Day 1 (6 Sep):

• Short presentation of the theory
• Key features of Octopus and numerical methods used
• Octopus basics tutorial series

Day 2 (7 Sep):

• Running Octopus in HPC systems: parallelization and GPUs

Day 3 (8 Sep):

• Optical absorption tutorial series

Day 4 (9 Sep):

• Solids tutorial series

Day 5 (10 Sep):

• Model systems

Days 6 (13 Sep):

• Maxwell tutorials
• Free project [students choose one or more tutorials that haven’t been covered yet]

Days 7 (14 Sep):

• ARPES tutorials
• Free project [students choose one or more tutorials that haven’t been covered yet]

Octopus Advanced (Sep. 20-26)

Day 1 (20 Sep):

• General considerations about scientific software development
• Introduction to Octopus for developers
• Multisystem framework
• OOP: concepts and Fortran implementation

Day 2 (21 Sep):

• Octopus code structure
• Introduction to git

Day 3 (22 Sep):

• Introduction to git (cont.)
• Parallelization and performance: how to make the Octopus swim fast

Day 4 (23 Sep):

• Testing and CI: introduction to testing, Octopus regression testsuite, buildbot and the testsuite app
• Debugging the code

Day 5 (24 Sep):

• Git workflows and GitLab (Micael)
• general discussions

Days 6-7 (27-28 Sep):

• Free project [students get help implementing or modifying something in the code]