Participants' Requirements 

Experience in basic computer programming (Linux, Python), basic orbital dynamics, and statistical methods are necessary to attend this workshop. However, the use of the SHAPE code will be taught from the beginning.

Useful background knowledge: 

• Previous experience working with some sort of asteroid observational data

• Graduate courses on observational astronomy and celestial mechanics

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During the online sessions prior to the in-person training, each participant will be shown how to install the SHAPE code on their university cluster or server.

Hardware requirements for SHAPE:​

• • Compute power: Ideally, use SHAPE on a cluster that has many servers with many CPUs​

    • Like the Stokes cluster at UCF ARCC

      • https://arcc.ist.ucf.edu/index.php/resources/stokes/about-stokes​

    • Otherwise, on a machine with a few dozen fast CPUs​

      • For instance: 32× 3 GHz CPUs​

    • A laptop is not sufficient!

  • Memory: 2 GB to run each model is usually sufficient​

  • Disk storage:​

    • ~50 MB for SHAPE itself​

    • Typically ~1 GB for each asteroid's processed data files​

    • ~2 GB for each asteroid's set of shape models

Software requirements for SHAPE:

• • Preferably Linux; Mac should work; not Windows!

  • Packages required to build SHAPE: C compiler, cfitsio, mpich​

    • Other MPI packages (such as mvapich) may work in place of mpich​​

  • Associated scripts require Bash (not csh or tcsh)​ and Python 3​