A Hands-on Tutorial Course for a Simulations-Management Tool, OACIS

About this Tutorial

We are going to have a hands-on tutorial of OACIS as a adjacent event of the 30th Annual CSP workshop.

OACIS is open-source software developed by discrete-event simulation research team of RIKEN AICS, which efficiently manages the results of your simulations and other computation: See Github page (http://github.com/crest-cassia/oacis) or the attached poster below for more detail. By combining your simulators with OACIS, it is easy to conduct parameter-space exploration. OACIS also provides Python or Ruby APIs to automate the workflow, which are useful for various applications including parameter sweep, optimization, and sensitivity analysis.

In the tutorial, we demonstrate the basic usage of OACIS and let you have an experience of using it. Participants are expected to try OACIS by themselves on a virtual machine environment. Please install Docker and download the image of OACIS beforehand. Please see below for details.

Date & Venue

Date & Time : 12:00 - 16:00 (lunch provided), 19 February 2017

Venue : Center for Simulational Physics Conference Room (Same place as the CSP workshop. See WS page. )

Schedule

13:00 - 13:40 session 1

14:00 - 14:40 session 2

14:40 - 15:00 coffee break

15:00 - 15:40 session 3

Sponsors

This tutorial is sponsored by RIKEN National Laboratory, Japan and the Center for Simulational Physics.

Registration

TBA

Preparation for the tutorial

We conduct a hands-on tutorial: We expect participants to try OACIS by yourself to learn how to use even more.

We are providing a virtual machine image using Docker. Please install docker beforehand following these instructions.

• (Windows) https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/
  • https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/toolbox_install_windows/
• (Mac) https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/
  • or https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/toolbox_install_mac/
• (Linux, Ubuntu) https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/ubuntu/

After you installed docker, please download the image of OACIS by running the following command. The image size is about 1GB, so run this command when you have a good Internet connection.

docker pull oacis/oacis_jupyter

After the download completed, run

docker images

to list the downloaded image. You will find the image "oacis/oacis_jupyter" in the list.

If you have a trouble, please contact to the organizers.

Organizers & Contacts

• Nobuyasu Ito
• Yohsuke Murase
• Naoki Yoshioka

For those who have questions about the tutorial, please contact one of the organizers, Yohsuke Murase, by e-mail. (yohsuke.murase @ riken.jp)

Slides