Article Catalog

See below all articles in the wiki grouped by categories. Each section contains a different grouping, so articles may appear more than once on this page

Beginner's Guide

Main page: Beginner's Guide to Computation in Statistical Research

Implementation
Choosing and Installing a Programming Language Installing and Configuring an Integrated Development Environment Beyond Print Statements: Breakpoint Debugging

Scaling
Building Workflows on Remote Servers Parallelization: Making the most of your Machine Big Data Management

Reproducibility and Collaboration
Version Control Dependency Management

Software Development
Creating Libraries and Packages

Organized By Topic Area

Big Data Tools
Globus Scratch Storage

Containers and Virtual Environments
Conda with Python (Reference Only) Docker Sandboxes for AI Agents Docker, and why-you-should-use-it-for-your-research Introduction to containers Jumping to frequently used folders and automating environment setups Mamba Python virtual environments Renv Running Docker locally and on Hydras Tutorials Virtual Environment Introduction

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
GitHub Copilot Jupyter Notebooks Python on the server R on the server VS Code Remote VSCode

Package Development and Distribution
Developing python packages Developing R packages

Parallelization
Parallel computing Parallelization in python Parallelization in r Parallelization on PSC/Bridges-2 Terminal multiplexers

Remote Server Access
Jupyter Notebooks Linux and department servers Monitoring with Grafana Open OnDemand Open OnDemand Wright Scratch Storage Slurm Demo SLURM Demo VS Code Remote VSCode What resources when

Terminal and Command Line
Bash files Command Line Data Transfer Terminal automation Terminal multiplexers Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Python

Version Control
Git and GitHub

Web Hosting
Bulding your website with Hugo How to host your webpage under stat.cmu.edu Jekyll

Other Productivity Tools
Amphetamine Chrome Remote Desktop Department Printers Local PC Backup

Organized by Resource Type

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Department Servers
Jupyter Notebooks Linux and department servers Monitoring with Grafana Open OnDemand Python on the server R on the server Scratch Storage VS Code Remote What resources when

Wright Cluster
Monitoring with Grafana Open OnDemand Open OnDemand Wright Python on the server Scratch Storage Slurm Slurm Demo SLURM Demo VS Code Remote What resources when

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Parallelization on PSC/Bridges-2 PSC Python on the server Scratch Storage Slurm Slurm Demo SLURM Demo VS Code Remote What resources when